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Knowing where and who are intimately linked.

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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
Poet
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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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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You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are interacting with it yourself. This is just part of the work of becoming who you are, where you are.
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Wildness is not just the preservation of the world, it is the world
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True affluence is not needing anything.
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Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
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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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When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.
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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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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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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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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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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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A great poet does not express his or her self he expresses all of our selves.
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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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Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done.
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