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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
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San Francisco County
California
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A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
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You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.
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A great poet does not express his or her self he expresses all of our selves.
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My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
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When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.
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What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams
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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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After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board
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Being the Stream Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.
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All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.
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Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
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Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.
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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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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
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I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
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