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Gary Snyder Quotes: "Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility."

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.



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: "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 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: "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: "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: "I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe."

I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.




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: "Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering."

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.



Gary Snyder Quotes: "In Western Civilization, our elders are books."

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.



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: "The size of the place that one becomes a 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: "True affluence is to not need anything."

True affluence is to not need anything.



Gary Snyder Quotes: "Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife"

Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife



Gary Snyder Quotes: "Streams and mountains never stay the same."

Streams and mountains never stay the same.



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: "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: "The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home."

The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.



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: "All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost."

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.



Gary Snyder Quotes: "Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility."

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.



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: "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: "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: "stay together learn the flowers go light"

stay together learn the flowers go light



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: "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: "Thought is just an apprehension of touch."

Thought is just an apprehension of touch.



Gary Snyder Quotes: "I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the sun With joyful interpenetratio n for all."

I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the sun With joyful interpenetratio n for all.



Gary Snyder Quotes: "True affluence is not needing anything."

True affluence is not needing anything.



Gary Snyder Quotes: "I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times."

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.



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: "Knowing where and who are intimately linked."

Knowing where and who are intimately linked.



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: "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: "I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again."

I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.



Gary Snyder Quotes: "I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here."

I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.



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: "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: "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: "Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined."

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.



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: "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: "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: "You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use."

You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.



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: "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: "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: "Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics"

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics