Back on the Fire Quotes

“The moon shines on the river,
The wind blows through the pines-
Who is this long, beautiful evening for”
― Gary Snyder, Back on the Fire

“Art takes nothing from the world; it is a gift and an exchange. It leaves the world nourished.”
― Gary Snyder, Back on the Fire

“We all receive, every day, the gifts of the Deep World, from the air we breathe to the food we eat”
― Gary Snyder, Back on the Fire

“If we made such good use of animals, eating them, singing about them, drawing them, riding them, and dreaming about them, what do they get back from us?”
― Gary Snyder, Back on the Fire

“Performance is currency in the deep world's gift economy”
― Gary Snyder, Back on the Fire

“We can no longer think that the fate of humanity and that of the nonhuman world are independent of each other”
― Gary Snyder, Back on the Fire

“Do not put too much faith in government”
― Gary Snyder, Back on the Fire