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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Gary Snyder

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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
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Trade Unionist
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San Francisco County
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My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
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I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.
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After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board
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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
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The other side of the sacred is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
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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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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
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A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
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Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.
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A great poet does not express his or her self he expresses all of our selves.
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Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.
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Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.
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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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Wildness is not just the preservation of the world, it is the world
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When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.
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