Gary Snyder said this quote

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

~ Gary Snyder

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

~ Gary Snyder

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.

~ Gary Snyder

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.

~ Gary Snyder