“I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years.” KnowsWayYearsWellsTermVisionBeatsCriticismOriginalsMeetingsVariousAssociationPhilipComradeshipGinsberg Author:Gary Snyder
“For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel; it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community.” WayMeanLongDoneEnoughAmericaMovingCommunityResponsibilityDemocracyInvolvedLocalsThings To DoRepresentativesTaking ResponsibilityGet InvolvedLocal CommunityDemocracy In America Author:Gary Snyder
“Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.” PeopleWorldWayMindWellsBodyHandsChoicesGamesLostSpaceFireFourFeetRocksPlanetsWallStonesWeightHotLaysEndlessLeafsLinkedTormentTime And SpaceTrailsCrystalsAntsBarkPebblesPoniesSaddlesCreeksMilky WayGraniteSolidity Book:No nature: new and selected poems Source: No nature: new and selected poems
“Being the Stream Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.” WorldWayMayHomeWaterWhiteMeditationStreamsRetreatTurmoilImpurityWhite Water Author:Gary Snyder
“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. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.” WayHumansOrderSpeakHuman BeingsWalksJourneyPossibilityWalkingMembersDiversityWanderWildernessHikingEcologyWholenessAssemblyTrekkingStrollingEcosystemsFlourishingSaunteringMembership Author:Gary Snyder
