150 Quotes by Gary Snyder

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

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.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

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.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.