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Gary Snyder quotes: The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom. The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.
Gary Snyder quotes: With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free. With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.
Gary Snyder quotes: True affluence is not needing anything. True affluence is not needing anything.
Gary Snyder quotes: I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done. I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.
Gary Snyder quotes: The size of the place that one becomesa member of is limited only by the size of one's heart. The size of the place that one becomes
a member of is limited only by
the size of one's heart.
Gary Snyder quotes: Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death. Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.
Gary Snyder quotes: I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind. I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.
Gary Snyder quotes: Range after range of mountains.Year after year after year.I am still in love. Range after range of mountains.
Year after year after year.
I am still in love.
Gary Snyder quotes: Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks. Will be but corpses dressed in frocks,
who cannot speak to birds or rocks.
Gary Snyder quotes: A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.
Gary Snyder quotes: Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street. Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.
Gary Snyder quotes: When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
Gary Snyder quotes: Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order. Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.
Gary Snyder quotes: All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven,Not quite right. All that we did was human,
stupid, easily forgiven,
Not quite right.
Gary Snyder quotes: Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses
Gary Snyder quotes: Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.
Gary Snyder quotes: The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
Gary Snyder quotes: the man who has the soul of the wolfknows the self-restraintof the wolf the man who has the soul of the wolf
knows the self-restraint
of the wolf
Gary Snyder quotes: A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe. A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
Gary Snyder quotes: They should listen to the unsaid words that resonate around the edge of the poem. They should listen to the unsaid words that resonate around the edge of the poem.
Gary Snyder quotes: Streams and mountains never stay the same. Streams and mountains never stay the same.
Gary Snyder quotes: Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics
Gary Snyder quotes: Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world
Gary Snyder quotes: What use, Milton, a silly story Of our lost general parents, eaters of fruit? What use, Milton, a silly story
Of our lost general parents,
eaters of fruit?
Gary Snyder quotes: the mind poet stays in the house / the house is empty and it has no walls / the poem is seen from all sides / everywhere / at once. the mind poet stays in the house / the house is empty and it has no walls / the poem is seen from all sides / everywhere / at once.
Gary Snyder quotes: Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again. Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
Gary Snyder quotes: Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary Snyder quotes: gentle and innocent as wolvesas tricky as a prince gentle and innocent as wolves
as tricky as a prince
Gary Snyder quotes: Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
Gary Snyder quotes: The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots. The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
Gary Snyder quotes: My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
Gary Snyder quotes: Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined. Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
Gary Snyder quotes: I could almost love you again. I could almost love you again.
Gary Snyder quotes: O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion! O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
Gary Snyder quotes: Switchback"turn, turn,and again, hard scrabblesteep travel ahead. Switchback"

turn, turn,
and again,
hard scrabble
steep travel
ahead.
Gary Snyder quotes: To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture
Gary Snyder quotes: Thought is just an apprehension of touch. Thought is just an apprehension of touch.
Gary Snyder quotes: Deer love mushrooms. Deer love mushrooms.
Gary Snyder quotes: stay togetherlearn the flowersgo light stay together
learn the flowers
go light
Gary Snyder quotes: You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents. You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.
Gary Snyder quotes: If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment. If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
Gary Snyder quotes: After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board
Gary Snyder quotes: In Western Civilization, our elders are books. In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
Gary Snyder quotes: Knowing where and who are intimately linked. Knowing where and who are intimately linked.
Gary Snyder quotes: The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury. The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury.
Gary Snyder quotes: The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us. The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us.
Gary Snyder quotes: All those years and their moments - Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text. All those years and their moments - Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.
Gary Snyder quotes: Each time you go that road it gets more straight. Each time you go that road it gets more straight.
Gary Snyder quotes: Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place. Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.
Gary Snyder quotes: Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged? Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
Gary Snyder quotes: When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off. When making an axe handle
the pattern is not far off.
Gary Snyder quotes: Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps. Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.
Gary Snyder quotes: My love thoughts these days Come thick like the summer grass Which soon as cut and rakedGrows My love thoughts these days Come thick like the summer grass Which soon as cut and raked
Grows
Gary Snyder quotes: Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities. Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
Gary Snyder quotes: Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough. Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.
Gary Snyder quotes: True affluence is to not need anything. True affluence is to not need anything.

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