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To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

Gary Snyder

Culture, Behalf

Gary Snyder (1995). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds : New and Selected Prose”, Counterpoint LLC

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

Gary Snyder

Path, Surroundings

Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.65, Counterpoint Press

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True affluence is not needing anything.

Gary Snyder

Affluence

Gary Snyder (1974). “Turtle Island”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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Human beings everywhere in the world are affected by the global media now. Still, what I have noticed in the east Asia, in the indigenous world, Alaska in particular, and in back country farm and ranch country, is a higher sense of etiquette, and more respectful manners. Urban middle class cosmopolitan world peoples of all races have become speedy and rude. This is a pretty big generalization though.

Gary Snyder

Country, Rude, World

Source: www.theguardian.com

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Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Gary Snyder

Humility, Balance, Spirit

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For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel; it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community.

Gary Snyder

Moving, Mean, Responsibility

"High peak haikus". Interview with James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2005.

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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

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stay together learn the flowers go light

Gary Snyder

Flower, Light, Together

Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison (2010). “The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild”, p.82, Counterpoint

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Streams and mountains never stay the same.

Gary Snyder

Mountain, Streams

Gary Snyder (2009). “Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem”, p.145, Counterpoint

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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

Gratitude, Stars, Sky

Gary Snyder (1974). “Turtle Island”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

Gary Snyder

Coffee, Dirty, Beer

Gary Snyder, “There Are Those Who Love To Get Dirty”

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Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

Gary Snyder

Character, Mean, Consciousness

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Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

Gary Snyder

World, Wilderness, Preservation

Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.6, Counterpoint Press

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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Gary Snyder

Book, Civilization, Western

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Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

Gary Snyder

Apprehension

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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

Feelings, Mind, Shapes

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Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma.

Gary Snyder

War, Cutting, Animal

Gary Snyder (2009). “Back on the Fire: Essays”, p.125, Counterpoint

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

Gary Snyder

Self, Doe, Poet

Gary Snyder, William Scott McLean (1980). “The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979”, p.65, New Directions Publishing

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Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe

Gary Snyder

Rushing, Style, Today

Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

Gary Snyder

Beautiful, Grandmother, Men

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In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.

Gary Snyder

Life, Ocean, Creativity

Gary Snyder (2008). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds”, Counterpoint Press

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Knowing where and who are intimately linked.

Gary Snyder

Home, Knowing, Linked

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I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

Gary Snyder

Girl, Children, Writing

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What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams

Gary Snyder

Dream, Spiritual, Magic

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Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something.

Gary Snyder

Discovery, Years, Brain

Gary Snyder (1995). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds : New and Selected Prose”, Counterpoint LLC

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