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"24 Gary Snyder Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 8 May 1930 | Poet | Environmentalist | Educator |

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

Nature Place Visit Home
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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

Love Drink Fix Coffee
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It was really a blessing. It helped even out the conditions across the course.

Really Helped Condition Across
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Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

Grandfather Space Mind Wife
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Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Walking Exact Spirit Humility
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Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place
Relation Natural Takes
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The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.
Planet Best Stay Home
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A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Reading Kind Common Articulated
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Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

Thought Apprehension Touch
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!

Awareness Emptiness Heart Compassion
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True affluence is not needing anything

True Affluence Needing
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All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.

Human Stupid Forgiven Right
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Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
Place Scale Measured Bodies
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Streams and mountains never stay the same.

Stream Mountain Stay Same
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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

Today Plurality Human Life-style
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Wildness is not just the
Wilderness Preservation World
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You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

Want Victimized Lesser Talent
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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

Place Means Stored Myth
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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
Western Civilization Elders Books
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Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.
Nature Appears Chaotic Complex
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Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.
Range Mountains Year After
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The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

Lessons Freedom Wild Etiquette
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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

Mind Exhausted Image Invents
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Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Walking Adventure Medication Practice
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Gary Snyder Quotes & Sayings