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Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Gary Snyder

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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
Poet
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Gary Snyder
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Earth
Home
Ecology
Conservation

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All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.
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A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
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All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.
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A great poet does not express his or her self he expresses all of our selves.
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stay together learn the flowers go light
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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
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Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses
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You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.
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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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My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
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