All Gary Snyder Quotes
- Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities. Bodies
- Knowing where and who are intimately linked. Home
- Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place. Home
- 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… Beautiful
- 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… Adventure
- 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… Both
- Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world Preservation
- 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… Amazement
- O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion! Ah
- The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. Basic
- We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not… All
- Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged? Consciousness
- 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… American
- 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… Actually Existing
- Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again. Awaiting
- Streams and mountains never stay the same. Inspirational
- 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… All
- 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.… Accumulation
- 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… Belly
- Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough. Air
- Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them… Actually One
- 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 not… Adler
- True affluence is not needing anything. Affluence
- True affluence is to not need anything. Affluence
- Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is… All