What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.'… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“I have lived at Cold Mountain These thirty long years. Yesterday I called on friends and family: More than half had gone to the… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
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… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“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.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
![“But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is…” quote by Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af3/gary-snyder-4502_feels_but-if-you-do-know-what-is-taught-by-pla_256516.jpg)
