Quotes from Gary Snyder

Art takes nothing from the world; it is a gift and an exchange. It leaves the world nourished.

For modern humans, word associating has become 'obsessional'.

On all levels, from national to local, the need to move toward steady state economy — equilibrium, dynamic balance, inner growth stressed — must be taught.

Le porte d'entrata sono tutte orientate verso est. Al centro di ogni casa c'è il focolare, ogni mattina la luce del sole entra attraverso la porta che guarda a oriente e illumina il focolare, allora dicono che la dea del sole visita sua sorella, la dea del fuoco del focolare.

I love to roam around and I like tough self-discipline, I don't mind hard work and being poor never bothered me. I guess that's what makes it possible to carry on like I do. Being free doesn't mean evading necessity, it means outsmarting it.

Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.

gentle and innocent as wolves as tricky as a prince

Empty eye sockets of buildings just built Soulless, they still wait the ceremony that will make them too, new, Big city Gods

Get drunk all the time. Go someplace and score. Walk in and walk out of the Asp Hike up Tam Keep quitting and starting at Berkeley Watch the pike in the Steinhart Aquarium: he doesn't move. Sleeping with stangers Keeping up on the news Chanting sutras after sitting Practicing yr frailing on guitar Get dropped off in the fog in the night Fall in love twenty times Get divorced Keep moving — move out to the Sunset Get lost — or Get found

Jack [Kerouac] was, in a sense, a twentieth-century American mythographer. And that's why maybe those novels will stand up, because they will be one of the best statements of the myth of the twentieth century.

There is a character that you're born with, and there are tendencies that are prior to what your parents have socialized you into. There are definitely tendencies among girls to do certain things in certain ways, and there are tendencies in boys to do certain things, prior to socialization. Then socialization can enforce certain things or play down certain things. But you're not dealing with a totally blank slate.

Il movimento bioregionale non è solamente un programma rurale: vale anche come progetto di restaurazione della vita nei quartieri delle città e del loro ritorno ad essere più verdi.

Una vita dedita alla semplicità, al giusto coraggio, al buon umore, alla gratitudine, al lavoro, al gioco senza riserve e tanto cammino ci portano vicino al mondo effettivamente esistente e alla sua interezza.

Ricordare che un tempo vivevamo in certi luoghi fa parte della nostra auto-riscoperta attuale. Fornisce radici a ciò che definiamo essere umani (etimologicamente qualcosa come essere radicati nella terra).

Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.

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.

I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.

this dream pops. it was real:and it lasted forever.

Wrathful but Calm, Austere but Comic, Smokey the Bear willIlluminate those who would help him; but for those who wouldhinder or slander him,HE WILL PUT THEM OUT.

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

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

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.

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

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