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Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
Gary Snyder
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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
Poet
Trade Unionist
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Writer
San Francisco County
California
Gary Snyder
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The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.
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For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community.
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done.
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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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Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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A great poet does not express his or her self he expresses all of our selves.
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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.
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All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.
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Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something.
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All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.
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After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board
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Wildness is not just the preservation of the world, it is the world
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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
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Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
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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.
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You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.
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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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True affluence is not needing anything.
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