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Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

Gary Snyder

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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
Poet
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Gary Snyder
Touch
Thought
Apprehension

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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
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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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Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.
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You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.
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After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board
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True affluence is not needing anything.
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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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Wildness is not just the preservation of the world, it is the world
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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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