Quote

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.

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
Two
Primitive
Give
Scale
Take
Equally
Giving
Scales
Years
Hundred
Time
Thousand
People
Year
Three

More quotes by Gary Snyder

Image
When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.
Gary Snyder
Image
stay together learn the flowers go light
Gary Snyder
Image
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
Gary Snyder
Image
A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
Gary Snyder
Image
To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture
Gary Snyder
Image
Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
Gary Snyder
Image
The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.
Gary Snyder
Image
Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
Gary Snyder
Image
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.
Gary Snyder
Image
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.
Gary Snyder
Image
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.
Gary Snyder
Image
After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board
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
Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.
Gary Snyder
Image
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
Gary Snyder
Image
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
Image
The other side of the sacred is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
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
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
True affluence is not needing anything.
Gary Snyder