April 1990
Sunbeams
The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
The Legacy Of The Wild
An Interview With Gary Snyder
Another way of seeing the world would be to say our monuments would be our wild areas. Leaving behind wilderness for the future would be the monument of our civilization.
Curlews
We are immortal until the hour death first seizes our imagination. This goes for species as well as individuals. To die you must once consider death and think of it as beautiful. All spiritual advances are advances in aesthetics.
Gary Blake
I met Gary Blake at the meditation hall. It was a place of silence, but Gary Blake was not a silent man.
Tales Of Lord Shantih
“I can no more stop the wind than I can stop my unwanted thoughts,” he explained. “So I let them blow through me, and I carry on with my work.”