Gary Snyder

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May 08, 1930 in San Francisco, California, The United States

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Poetry, Outdoors & Nature

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Gary Snyder is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Since the 1970s, he has frequently been described as the 'laureate of Deep Ecology'. From the 1950s on, he has published travel-journals and essays from time to time. His work in his various roles reflects his immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has also translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. As a social critic, Snyder has much in common with Lewis Mumford, Aldous Huxley, Karl Hess, Aldo Leopold, and Karl Polanyi. Snyder was for many years on the faculty of the University of California, Davis, an...more

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Books by Gary Snyder

Average rating: 4.17 · 4,257 ratings · 268 reviews · 76 distinct works

	Turtle Island by Gary Snyder, Michael Corr 4.09 avg rating — 957 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Practice of the Wild 4.24 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems 4.28 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 1980 — 8 editions	My rating:
	No Nature: New and Selected Poems 4.20 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mountains and Rivers Without End 4.22 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Back Country 4.15 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 1971	My rating:
	Earth House Hold: Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries 4.16 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 1957 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations by Gary Snyder, Jim Dodge (Introduction) 4.39 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Axe Handles: Poems 4.12 avg rating — 155 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Danger on Peaks: Poems 3.86 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
― Gary Snyder

tags: conservation , home , nature

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“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
― Gary Snyder

tags: coffee , drink , gary , snyder , tea , there , those

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“I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.”
― Gary Snyder

tags: living , path , revolution

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