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Wildness is not just the preservation of the world, it is the world
Gary Snyder
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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
Poet
Trade Unionist
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San Francisco County
California
Gary Snyder
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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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The other side of the sacred is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
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Knowing where and who are intimately linked.
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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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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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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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A great poet does not express his or her self he expresses all of our selves.
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Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
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