Gary Snyder Quotations

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.

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

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.

Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

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.

Knowing where and who are intimately linked.

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

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.