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> [Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/forests-in-the-tropics-are-cut-to-make-pasture-to-raise-beef-for-the/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

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## More by Gary Snyder

> [The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-the-planet-is-to-stay-home/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/we-must-try-to-live-without-causing-unnecessary-harm-not-just-to/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/doom-scenarios-even-though-they-might-be-true-are-not-politically-or/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/sometime-in-the-last-ten-years-the-best-brains-of-the-occident/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/a-great-poet-does-not-express-his-or-her-self-he-expresses-all-of-our/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/you-should-really-know-what-the-complete-natural-world-of-your-region/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [“I have lived at Cold Mountain These thirty long years. Yesterday I called on friends and family: More than half had gone to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/i-have-lived-at-cold-mountain-these-thirty-long-years-yesterday-i/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/but-if-you-do-know-what-is-taught-by-plants-and-weather-you-are-in-on/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/in-paul-friedrich-s-book-proto-indo-european-trees-he-identifies-the/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/gratitude-to-the-great-sky-who-holds-billions-of-stars-and-goes-yet/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [“In the mountains it's cold. Always been cold, not just this year. Jagged scarps forever snowed in Woods in the dark ravines spitting mist.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/in-the-mountains-it-s-cold-always-been-cold-not-just-this-year-jagged/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/when-the-mind-is-exhausted-of-images-it-invents-its-own/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/forests-in-the-tropics-are-cut-to-make-pasture-to-raise-beef-for-the/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [“The blue mountains are constantly walking." Dōgen is quoting the Chan master Furong. -- "If you doubt mountains walking you do not know your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/the-blue-mountains-are-constantly-walking-d-gen-is-quoting-the-chan/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

> [Thought is just an apprehension of touch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/thought-is-just-an-apprehension-of-touch/)

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