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• To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

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  Culture, Behalf

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

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• Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

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  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.

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  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

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

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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.

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  Country, Rude, World

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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

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  Gratitude, Stars, Sky

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

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

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  Path, Surroundings

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

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• True affluence is not needing anything.

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  Affluence

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

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

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  Home, World, Natural

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

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• Streams and mountains never stay the same.

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  Mountain, Streams

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

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• stay together learn the flowers go light

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  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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• 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.

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  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

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  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.

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  Book, Civilization, Western

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• Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

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  Apprehension

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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.

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  War, Cutting, Animal

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

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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.

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  Feelings, Mind, Shapes

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

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  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

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  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.

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  Beautiful, Grandmother, Men

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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.

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  Girl, Children, Writing

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• You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

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  Want, Talent

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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.

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  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.

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  Home, Knowing, Linked

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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.

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  Discovery, Years, Brain

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

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