Gary Snyder
Born: 01-01-1930
Gary Snyder is a celebrated American poet renowned for his role in the Beat Generation and his profound connection to nature and Zen Buddhism. Born in 1930, Snyder's work reflects his environmental activism and deep reverence for the natural world. His Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, "Turtle Island," underscores his commitment to ecological issues. A translator and essayist, Snyder's influence extends across literature and environmental thought.
Book summaries for books written by Gary Snyder
Quotes
The wild requires that we learn the terrain, nod to all the plants and animals and birds, ford the streams and cross the ridges, and tell a good story when we get back home.
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
The first step, shall be to lose the way.
The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us.
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
To find the Buddha, look within. Deep inside you are ten thousand flowers. Each flower blossoms ten thousand times. Each blossom has ten thousand petals. You might want to see a specialist.
The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
Stay together, learn the flowers, go light.
The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.
Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
The world as it is, is not allowed to be a place of wonder.