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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

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Gary Snyder Books Elders Truth

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

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Gary Snyder Truth

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

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Gary Snyder Beatnik Naturalism Poetry Spirituality

The Government finally decidedTo wage the war all-out. Defeat is Un-American. And they took to the air,Their women beside themin bouffant hairdosputting nail-polish on thegunship cannon-buttons.And they never came downfor they found,the groundis Pro-Communist. And dirty.And the insects side with the Viet Cong.

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Gary Snyder America Communism Vietnam War

Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied language and good dreams.

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Gary Snyder Dreams Language The Environment

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

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Gary Snyder Culture History Human Primitive Stone Age

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

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Gary Snyder Conservation Home Nature

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

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Gary Snyder Gary Snyder Gossip Naturalism Nature Part Spirit Of Place Whole

If we are here for any good purpose at all (other than collating texts, running rivers, and learning the stars), I suppose it is to entertain the rest of nature. A gang of sexy primate clowns. All the little critters creep in close to listen when the human beings are in a good mood and willing to play some tunes.

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Gary Snyder Humor Music Nature

Here is perhaps the most delicious turn that comes out of thinking about politics from the standpoint of place: anyone of any race, language, religion, or origin is welcome, as long as they live well on the land. The great Central Valley region does not prefer English over Spanish or Japanese or Hmong. If it had any preferences at all, it might best like the languages it has heard for thousands of years, such as Maidu or Miwok, simply because it is used to them. Mythically speaking, it will welcome whomever chooses to observe the etiquette, express the gratitude, grasp the tools, and learn the songs that it takes to live there.

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Gary Snyder Bioregionalism California Nature

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

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Gary Snyder Buddhism Dharma Gary Mind Snyder Zen

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

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Gary Snyder Living Path Revolution

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.

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Gary Snyder Poison Spirituality Suffering

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

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Gary Snyder Earth Find Gary Place Planet Responibility Snyder

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

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Gary Snyder Poet Poetry

True affluence is not needing anything.

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Gary Snyder Contentment Stoicism
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