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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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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
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San Francisco County
California
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Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.
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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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Thought is just an apprehension of touch.
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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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The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.
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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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Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
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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 reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
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In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.
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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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Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
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Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something.
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Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?
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You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.
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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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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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True affluence is not needing anything.
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