I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstas…

- Gary Snyder

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

- Gary Snyder

Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world r…

- Gary Snyder

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spi…

- Gary Snyder

The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.

- Gary Snyder

Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking,…

- Gary Snyder

True affluence is to not need anything.

- Gary Snyder

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

- Gary Snyder

Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free your…

- Gary Snyder