--- title: "1 Wilderness Place Quotes By Gary Snyder" description: "1 Wilderness Place quotes by Gary Snyder. Plus more from Gary Snyder and more Wilderness Place sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f03/gary-snyder-4502_assembly_wilderness-is-a-place-where-the-wild-pot_2369940.jpg" --- > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/wilderness-is-a-place-where-the-wild-potential-is-fully-expressed-a/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f03/gary-snyder-4502_assembly_wilderness-is-a-place-where-the-wild-pot_2369940.jpg) ## 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/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wilderness-place/gary-snyder/#itemlist", "name": "1 Wilderness Place Quotes By Gary Snyder", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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