Gary Snyder @GarySnyderQuote

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Gary Snyder @GarySnyderQuote

5 days ago

In the Western Hemisphere we have only the tiniest number of buildings that can be called temples or shrines. The temples of our hemisphere will be some of the planet's remaining wilderness areas.

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It was my great pleasure to write a short essay on Gary Snyder and his *The Practice of the Wild*, language, Buddhism, anarchy, trees, and wildness for @CalBookClub. Thanks to Anita Felicelli for the invite. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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California Book Club @CalBookClub

a week ago

This May, we're delving into the profound writings of Gary Snyder. Join us as we explore "Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems" and "The Practice of the Wild" — books that speak to the soul of nature. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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Gary Snyder @GarySnyderQuote

a week ago

“Where I shoot my arrows “There is the sunflower’s shade —song of the rattlesnake coiled in the boulder’s groin “K’ak, k’ak, k’ak! sang Coyote. Mating with humankind— . . .

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Gary Snyder @GarySnyderQuote

a week ago

ten million years ago an ocean floor glides like snake beneath the continent crunching up old seabed till it’s high as alps.

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2 weeks ago

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

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Gary Snyder @GarySnyderQuote

2 weeks ago

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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2 weeks ago

Halving of the night frogs croaking cock crowing morning and night together crow cawing bright horizon. glimmer of day colors of cattle can be seen. sunrise dew dries cattle go out

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3 weeks ago

One man draws, and releases an arrow Humming, flat, Misses a gray stump, and splitting A smooth red twisty manzanita bough.

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3 weeks ago

Song for Wrecked Cars cars wrecked, washed strewn through the desert, trash space ironwood limbs lit by the moon mosquito twig breeze cars rusting to death while alive

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3 weeks ago

A few light flakes of snow Fall in the feeble sun; Birds sing in the cold, A warbler by the wall. The plum Buds tight and chill soon bloom.

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3 weeks ago

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

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4 weeks ago

My wife is gone, my girl is gone, my books are loaned, my clothes are worn, I gave away a car; and all that happened years ago. Mind & matter, love & space are frail as foam on beer. —Gary Snyder

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Gary Snyder @GarySnyderQuote

3 weeks ago

Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking brings us close to the actual existing world and its wholeness.

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3 weeks ago

Lovers part, from tangle warm Of gentle bodies under quilt And crack the icy water to the face And wake and feed the children And grandchildren that they love.

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4 weeks ago

I am beset with the dualism of this age. It is my aim to reach a concept of unity between mankind and the natural world.

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4 weeks ago

We must try to live without causing harm. We must try not to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.

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a month ago

I saw a single, perfect, lovely, manzanita Ha.

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a month ago

Under the topless, bottomless, empty blue sky hands and knees, looking down a little hole leaky gate-valve drip drip

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a month ago

Here In the dark (the new moon long set) A soft grumble in the breeze Is the sound of a jet so high It's already long gone by some planet Rising from the east shines Through the trees It's been years since I thought Why are we here?