"For several centuries Western civilization has had a……" — Gary Snyder
"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. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature."
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61 Quotes by Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder has 61 quotes on this site.
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Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
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Knowing where and who are intimately linked.
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Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.
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Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling…
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Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the…
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I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and…
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Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world
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Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in…
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the…
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We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all…
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Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
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More Accumulation Quotes
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
— David Byrne
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
— Noam Chomsky
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— Gyorgy Konrad
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you…
— William J. Clinton
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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our…
— Anne Roiphe
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
— Brenda Ueland
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
— Calvin Coolidge
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