“Paths are necessary in order to go off the trail.”

“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic: the …”

— Gary Snyder, Statement on work

“Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.”

— Gary Snyder, On bioregionalism

“Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.”

— Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild (1990)

“Stay together / learn the flowers / go light.”

— Gary Snyder, 'For the Children' (1974)

“The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight …”

— Gary Snyder, 'Buddhism and the Coming Revolution' (1969)

“The real work is what we really do. And what our lives are. And if we can make work real, we can …”

— Gary Snyder, The Real Work* (1980)