Gary Snyder Quotes

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wanderin...

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots...

If we are here for any good purpose at all (other than collating texts, running rivers, and learning...

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly...

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take t...

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

The Government finally decidedTo wage the war all-out. Defeat is Un-American. And they took to the a...

Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in ou...

True affluence is not needing anything.

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

Here is perhaps the most delicious turn that comes out of thinking about politics from the standpoin...

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of t...

I have a friend who feels sometimes that the world is hostile to human life--he says it chills us an...

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and...