#gary snyder

[havingapoemwithyou]

After work by Gary Snyder

[perfectfeelings]

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

Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild

[thoughtkick]

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

Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild

[amoebasareverysmall]

from San Francisco Oracle No. 7 (1967)

[stay-close]

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

Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild

[proustian-dream]

Hanshan, translation by Gary Snyder, Riprap & Cold Mountain poems

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"All age unmanaged, that's a natural community, human or other. The industry prizes the younger and middle-aged trees that keep their symmetry, keep their branches even of length and angle. But let there also be really old trees who can give up all sense of propriety and begin throwing their limbs out in extravagant gestures, dancelike poses, displaying their insouciance in the face of mortality, holding themselves available to whatever the world and the weather might propose. I look up to them, to have lived that long is to have permission to be eccentric, to be the poets and painters among trees, laughing, ragged, and fearless. They make me look forward to old age."

Gary Snyder - Ancients Forests of the Far West.

(Bruce Fertman)

[perfectquote]

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

Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild