NCTV11 Interviews - Gary Snyder

Host Lew Sitzer talks to Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize winning Poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. This interview is one hour long.
NCTV11
Host: Lew Sitzer

[@fredlyr1]

Gary Snyder is one of the most under rated persons of our times. He truly is the father of deep ecology. He summons us to return to an earth reverent lifestyle.

[@shavindadissanayake9345]

Agree

[@slobomotion]

I found him to be a personal avatar, from age 18 in '75. He helped me think about every choice in life, about nature, really about everything.

[@boddahmeep8752]

reading dharma bums again and his book back on the fire. a living legend!

[@Jmcsj02]

Just finished reading Dharma Bums for the 2nd time this week. Love reading it outdoors.

[@inlandonline]

Great opening music and the CHEEZIEST graphics I have EVER seen! Fine interview with Old Mountain Raven Man.

[@spacebrain1991]

to read along as gary snyder reads his poems. what a joy!

[@ronzbronz6043]

A Well-Spent Hour!! Thank-You Gary Snyder...You're salve for aching hearts & soul salvation!!

[@nicolasdisanto1118]

Thanks for this interview! Love Smokey the Bear Sutra! :)

[@courtmarker1779]

Gary has had the biggest influence on me
period

[@shavindadissanayake9345]

Snyder's poetry is about deep ecology. They transcend the ordinary. The poetry of Snyder is a call for us to return back to the eco-friendly lifestyle. Those eco-poems are deeply spiritual.

[@slobomotion]

I had to read EARTH HOUSE HOLD in my Existentialism class when I started college in the American Midwest in '75 with a Mr. Reed as prof. I still have the book I bought second hand. Snyder made me rethink my course in life and I am going to think about sharing this with a young British woman just out of university and young and wondering what to do with herself. Very nice posting, uprated. I am now in France and am 56 now, such a life I have had, Snyder was a tiny part of my thinking!

[@slobomotion]

Yes, he's been super overlooked.

[@arnaudmahu8996]

gary snyder is a benediction

[@bethdemars1118]

Bought Turtle Island @ a school book sale @ age 13, changed my life.

[@nicdafis]

Thanks for sharing this. When was it recorded, do you know?

[@slobomotion]

One of the last of the Beats, along with Wild Bill Blackolive in Texas!

[@boddahmeep8752]

watching this with CC (sound is a little low on my laptop) is great. Its like Burroughs cut-ups. some real interesting mistakes by the machine

[@Molokai17]

I lectured with Gary in Hong Kong, @ the International Writers Conference.

[@courtmarker1779]

AMEN!

[@slobomotion]

Pete, me too, and this is one of the reasons why I like you so much. I have listened to your clips and messages carefully and yeah! Oh, I just sent you a clip ... I don't normally do this sort of thing. Did you get it yet?

[@felipearias1267]

Japhy!

[@bellinivernon]

Exelente !

[@wlljohnbey1798]

Where is that theme music from that introduces the show?....It's beautiful.

[@juanpefernandez]

+wlljohn bey perhaps it's a blues guitar player improvising

[@NoPrivateProperty]

John Muir, henry thoreau, Rachel Carson, ef Schumacher, lots of environmentalists before Snyder

[@petermohlman]

He reminds me of........me!

[@khadijaadigozalova4371]

Please, can anyone tell when approximately this interview was recorded?

[@PatrickBateman1987]

early 2000s

[@Gome200]

For me, he will always be overshadowed by Kerouac

[@jimmcdonald4151]

Better than Kerouac, without the ego.

[@ragingchimera8021]

Nah. One's shadow cannot fall on someone standing in their own light.