TOP 20 Gary Snyder Quotes

TOP 20 Gary Snyder Quotes.
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“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
- Gary Snyder (00:00)
“Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.”
- Gary Snyder (00:07)
“Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.”
- Gary Snyder (00:14)
“Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.”
- Gary Snyder (00:21)
“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.”
- Gary Snyder (00:28)
“Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.”
- Gary Snyder (00:35)
“After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board.”
- Gary Snyder (00:42)
“Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.”
- Gary Snyder (00:49)
“The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.”
- Gary Snyder (00:56)
“Read carefully, then don’t read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic.”
- Gary Snyder (01:03)
“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 (01:10)
“True affluence is not needing anything.”
- Gary Snyder (01:17)
“The other side of the “sacred” is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.”
- Gary Snyder (01:24)
“Wildness is not just the “preservation of the world,” it is the world.”
- Gary Snyder (01:31)
“The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.”
- Gary Snyder (01:38)
“Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.”
- Gary Snyder (01:45)
“The size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one’s heart.”
- Gary Snyder (01:52)
“Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.”
- Gary Snyder (01:59)
“Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics.”
- Gary Snyder (02:06)
“Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife.”
- Gary Snyder (02:13)
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