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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

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
Yoga
Mind
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Wellness
Positivity
Exhausted
Images
Buddhism

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