"In Western Civilization, our elders are books." — Gary Snyder

"In Western Civilization, our elders are books."

— Gary Snyder

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61 Quotes by Gary Snyder

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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…
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the…
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things 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…
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…
We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all…
Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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