Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyderis an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet, he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder served...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 May 1930
CountryUnited States of America
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It's about establishing a collaborative professional learning community,
The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.
I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the sun With joyful interpenetratio n for all.
True affluence is not needing anything.
Thought is just an apprehension of touch.
The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.
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.
Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.