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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
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San Francisco County
California
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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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The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.
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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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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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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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Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe
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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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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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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
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Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
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Thought is just an apprehension of touch.
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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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Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.
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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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My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
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Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
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I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.
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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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