Find your place on the planet, dig in, and take responsibility from there.

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About Gary Snyder

Portrait of Gary Snyder

Gary Sherman Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology".

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For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed "progress."… The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature.

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

It has always been part of basic human experience to live in a culture of wilderness. There has been no wilderness without some kind of human presence for several hundred thousand years. Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.

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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

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I think when I work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

—Armand Hammer

He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes.

—James Clerk Maxwell

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Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.

—Adrienne E. Gusoff

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A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

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History

4 May 2013 Added