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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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Nature
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Earth

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My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
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