Gary Snyder Quotes

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• Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
• Knowing where and who are intimately linked.
• Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.
• Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden…
• Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and…
• I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and…
• Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world
• Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has…
• O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
• The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
• We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not…
• Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
• 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…
• Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close…
• Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
• Streams and mountains never stay the same.
• You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are interacting…
• For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong.…
• In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort…
• Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.

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