Gary Snyder Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• Being the Stream Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, White, Water

• Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

  Gary Snyder

  Nature, Home, Earth

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.7, Counterpoint Press

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

  Gary Snyder

  Home, Planets, Best Things

• Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, Space, Body

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.105, Counterpoint Press

• Knowing where and who are intimately linked.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, Knowing, Linked

• Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, World, Natural

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.42, Counterpoint Press

• But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, Weather, Gossip

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.41, Counterpoint Press

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