Gary SnyderThinkers

Affluence is nothing but not needing anything.

Culture is restored by working on behalf of the wild.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

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

Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses

Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind.

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order.

Wilderness is wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness. To consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.