"The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom."

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Source : Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison (2010). “The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the Practice of the Wild”, p.13, Counterpoint Press

Gary Snyder

#Lessons Quotes #Etiquette Quotes #Walking Quotes

“These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.”
“Were I not a king, I would be a university man.”
“I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an individual or a country, is to admit, by word or manner, how much I'm finding there that my life had lacked hitherto”
“I got to keep a clip for my hair. It had a pretty little dragonfly on it and I got to keep it”
“The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles”
“It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.”
“The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.”
“My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.”

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