"Pa-ta Shan-jen (A painter who watched Mingfall) lived……" — Gary Snyder
"Pa-ta Shan-jen (A painter who watched Mingfall) lived in a tree: The brush May paint the mountains and streams Though the territory is lost."
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Gary Snyder
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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 Brush Quotes
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
— Alton Brown
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Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of…
— Sandra Bullock
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This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the…
— Prince Charles
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Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who…
— Jerry Pate
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but…
— Drake
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Make your face not look like your face by piling on like the heaviest makeup you can find and do…
— Jenna Marbles
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If you can't move your brush good, just move your face.
— Jenna Marbles
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what…
— Hippolyte Taine
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The mind paints before the brush.
— James Ellis
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A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
— Joan Miro
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