Raph

“White clouds gather and billow. Thin grass does for a mattress, The blue sky makes a good quilt. Happy with a stone underhead Let heaven and earth go about their changes.”
― Gary Snyder, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems

“that we may see ourselves more accurately on this continent of watersheds and life-communities—plant zones, physiographic provinces, culture areas; following natural boundaries. The “U.S.A.” and its states and counties are arbitrary and inaccurate impositions on what is really here.”
― Gary Snyder, Turtle Island

“Deer love mushrooms.”
― Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild: With a New Preface by the Author

“In a true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Living Buddha, Living Christ