Gary Snyderstay together learn the flowers go light ✨ Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison (2010). The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild, p.82, Counter… ▶371Humanity
Gary SnyderIn Western Civilization, our elders are books.363HumanityReading
Gary SnyderI 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, Jim Harrison (2010). The Etiquette o… ▶365LifeThought
Gary SnyderThe Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from… ▶365LifePhilosophyTruth
Gary SnyderIn Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the semantic primitives of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed muc… ▶365LifeReading
Gary SnyderForests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and… ▶312Time
Gary SnyderToday 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… ▶335HumanityLifeTime
Gary SnyderKnowing where and who are intimately linked.314Thought
Gary SnyderTrue affluence is not needing anything. ✨ Gary Snyder (1974). Turtle Island, p.97, New Directions Publishing281Truth
Gary SnyderThe size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one’s heart. ✨ Gary Snyder (2009). Back on the Fire: Essays, p.98, Counterpoint281Love
Gary SnyderBeing 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 … ▶304Death
Gary SnyderOur relation to the natural world takes place in a place. ✨ Gary Snyder (2010). The Practice of the Wild, p.42, Counterpoint Press293Reflection
Gary SnyderFor several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wro… ▶304HumanityPolitics
Gary SnyderGratitude 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 … ▶316PoliticsThought
Gary SnyderThe mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. ✨ Gary Snyder (1969). Earth House Hold: Technic… ▶283Reflection
Gary SnyderThree-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 … ▶338HumanityPhilosophyReading
Gary SnyderWildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again. ✨ Gary Snyder (2010). The Practice of the Wild, p.14, … ▶273Humor
Gary SnyderWhy should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged? ✨ Gary Snyder (2010). The Practice of the Wild, p.21, Counter… ▶339Humanity
Gary SnyderNature is not a place to visit. It is home. ✨ Gary Snyder (2010). The Practice of the Wild, p.7, Counterpoint Press339Reflection
Gary SnyderNature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order. ✨ Gary Snyder (2010). The Practice of the Wild, p.100, Counterpoint Press… ▶252Humanity
Gary SnyderWith no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free. ✨ Gary Snyder (2010). The Practice of the Wild, p.65, Counterpoint Press264Reflection
Gary SnyderAll 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, Jim Harriso… ▶3110Time
Gary SnyderWe . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough p… ▶298HumanitySadness
Gary SnyderAll that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right. ✨ Gary Snyder (1968). The Back Country, p.120, New Directions Publishing298Humanity
Gary SnyderWildness is not just the preservation of the world, it is the world ✨ Gary Snyder (2010). The Practice of the Wild, p.6, Counterpoint Press233Time
Gary SnyderI 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 wor… ▶233LovePolitics
Gary SnyderO, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion! ✨ Gary Snyder (2009). Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem, p.151, Counterpoint222Love
Gary SnyderI 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 a… ▶222HumorLife
Gary SnyderAll 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… ▶266ReadingThought
Gary SnyderClouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps. ✨ Gary Snyder (2010). Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, p.17, Counterpoint Pre… ▶245Reflection
