"Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as……" — Gary Snyder
"Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again."
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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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