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The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom. — Gary Snyder

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free. — Gary Snyder

True affluence is not needing anything. — Gary Snyder

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

The size of the place that one becomes
a member of is limited only by
the size of one's heart. — Gary Snyder

Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death. — Gary Snyder

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

Range after range of mountains.
Year after year after year.
I am still in love. — Gary Snyder

Smith, I distrust any kind of Buddhism or any kinda philosophy or social system that puts down sex said Japhy (Gary Snyder) — Jack Kerouac

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks,
who cannot speak to birds or rocks. — Gary Snyder

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder

Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street. — Gary Snyder

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. — Gary Snyder

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order. — Gary Snyder

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

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility. — Gary Snyder

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

the man who has the soul of the wolf
knows the self-restraint
of the wolf — Gary Snyder

Streams and mountains never stay the same. — Gary Snyder

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics — Gary Snyder

All that we did was human,
stupid, easily forgiven,
Not quite right. — Gary Snyder

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

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder

gentle and innocent as wolves
as tricky as a prince — Gary Snyder

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots. — Gary Snyder

O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion! — Gary Snyder

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined. — Gary Snyder

What use, Milton, a silly story
Of our lost general parents,
eaters of fruit? — Gary Snyder

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand. — Gary Snyder

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

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world — Gary Snyder

They should listen to the unsaid words that resonate around the edge of the poem. — Gary Snyder

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe. — Gary Snyder

Each time you go that road it gets more straight. — Gary Snyder

Deer love mushrooms. — Gary Snyder

To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture — Gary Snyder

stay together
learn the flowers
go light — Gary Snyder

You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents. — Gary Snyder

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

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board — Gary Snyder

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

Knowing where and who are intimately linked. — Gary Snyder

I could almost love you again. — Gary Snyder

The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us. — Gary Snyder

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

Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses — Gary Snyder

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place. — Gary Snyder

Switchback"

turn, turn,
and again,
hard scrabble
steep travel
ahead. — Gary Snyder

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged? — Gary Snyder

When making an axe handle
the pattern is not far off. — Gary Snyder

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps. — Gary Snyder

My love thoughts these days Come thick like the summer grass Which soon as cut and raked
Grows — Gary Snyder

Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities. — Gary Snyder

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. — Gary Snyder

Thought is just an apprehension of touch. — Gary Snyder

True affluence is to not need anything. — Gary Snyder

The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury. — Gary Snyder