Gary Snyder Quotes

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

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

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

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.

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.