Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all… — 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
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
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
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
“The blue mountains are constantly walking." Dōgen is quoting the Chan master Furong. -- "If you doubt mountains walking you do not know your… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
