deep ecology
practices for awakening and resilience in a changing world
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and …
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.
Paths are necessary in order to go off the trail.
Stay together / learn the flowers / go light.
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
The real work is what we really do. And what our lives are. And if we can make work real, we can make it whole.
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind.
Gary Snyder (born 1930) is an American poet, Zen Buddhist practitioner, and ecological philosopher whose work integrates Beat poetry, Buddhism, and bioregionalism. His collection Turtle Island …