Gary Snyder Quotes
Enjoy the top 87 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Gary Snyder.

“Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.”
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“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
— Gary Snyder
“Stay together
learn the flowers
go light”
— Gary Snyder
— Gary Snyder
“The size of the place that one becomes
a member of is limited only by
the size of one's heart.”
— Gary Snyder
“Each time you go that road it gets more straight.”
— Gary Snyder
We ... 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 pain in the world as it is.
— Gary Snyder
“To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture”
— Gary Snyder
“Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.”
— Gary Snyder
“Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.”
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“True affluence is to not need anything.”
— Gary Snyder
“Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.”
— Gary Snyder
“True affluence is not needing anything.”
— Gary Snyder
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
— Gary Snyder
“A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.”
— Gary Snyder
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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“Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics”
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I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.
— Gary Snyder
— Gary Snyder
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