Quotes About Gary Snyder

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

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

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

It is really striking," says Gary Snyder, "that so very many people at Zen Center reject the term religion when it is applied to what they are doing. What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. That's Buddhism.