No Nature, Not Ever

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

— Life Quotes (@RTLifeQuotes) August 4, 2020

I’ve been thinking a lot about this Gary Snyder quotation recently and how it has been bastardised to become some generic caption for an inspirational poster in your dentist’s waiting room.

In every instance it is shared online — search “Gary Synder” on Twitter and 75% of tweets are replicating this line and anchoring it down with hashtags — it seems to invert its own logic by setting up a...