"Place and the scale of space must be……" — Gary Snyder
"Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities."
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61 Quotes by Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder has 61 quotes on this site.
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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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Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the…
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More Bodies Quotes
This quote is filed under Bodies Quotes,
one of 1,801 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
— Richard Bach
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
— George Berkeley
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
— Mortimer Adler
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell…
— Jim Bishop
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
— Erma Bombeck
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Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies.…
— Brandon Boyd
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