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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- Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. β¨ Gary Snyder (1974). Turtle Island, p.101, New Directions Publishing
- 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. β¨ Gary Snyder (1969). Earth House Hold, β¦ βΆ
- Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world an β¦ βΆ
- All those years and their momentsβ Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text. β¨ Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison (2010). The Etiquette of β¦ βΆ
- 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 wa β¦ βΆ
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