Quote

Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

Gary Snyder

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
Poet
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Gary Snyder
Mind
Thoughts
Beyond
Goes
Grandfather
Wife
Holds
Stars
Billions
Within
Powers
Space
Sky
Great
Gratitude

More quotes by Gary Snyder

Image
When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.
Gary Snyder
Image
The other side of the sacred is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
Gary Snyder
Image
There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
Gary Snyder
Image
All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.
Gary Snyder
Image
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.
Gary Snyder
Image
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.
Gary Snyder
Image
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.
Gary Snyder
Image
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.
Gary Snyder
Image
After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board
Gary Snyder
Image
O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
Gary Snyder
Image
True affluence is not needing anything.
Gary Snyder
Image
When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
Gary Snyder
Image
Knowing where and who are intimately linked.
Gary Snyder
Image
Thought is just an apprehension of touch.
Gary Snyder
Image
Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
Gary Snyder
Image
A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
Gary Snyder
Image
Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness
Gary Snyder
Image
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.
Gary Snyder
Image
The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.
Gary Snyder
Image
To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture
Gary Snyder