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Back on the Fire QUOTES

Back on the Fire QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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

3 " 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

4 " Do not put too much faith in government "

― Gary Snyder , Back on the Fire

5 " 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

6 " Performance is currency in the deep world's gift economy "

― Gary Snyder , Back on the Fire

7 " Art takes nothing from the world; it is a gift and an exchange. It leaves the world nourished. "

― Gary Snyder , Back on the Fire