We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is. Gary Snyder More Quotes by Gary Snyder More Quotes From Gary Snyder I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done. Gary Snyder hate done gone My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand. Gary Snyder grandmother garden hands I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here. Gary Snyder san-francisco cities sight If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land Gary Snyder jail rap land Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic. Gary Snyder free-yourself magic hard-work Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility. Gary Snyder balance humility spirit Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand. Gary Snyder grandmother beautiful men All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right. Gary Snyder forgiven humans stupid Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities. Gary Snyder space body home Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined. Gary Snyder aim practice All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text. Gary Snyder car doors years 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. Gary Snyder ignorance mind trying The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots. Gary Snyder sacred sight sides Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant. Gary Snyder ignorant distance cutting When making an axe handle Gary Snyder patterns handle Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that. Gary Snyder guitar names people Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics Gary Snyder slick rocks poetry Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks. Gary Snyder rocks speak bird Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife Gary Snyder wife space stars 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. Gary Snyder oregon love-you america
