Gary Snyder on Ecology and Poetry Pt.1

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I first read Snyder in 1980. I was twenty years old. I was very interested in Buddhism and went to meditation classes and read The Diamond Sutra and the Tao Te Ching and many suttas and sutras. It was through Snyder that I read a great deal of Asian literature and began to see that there are other stories and ways of looking at the world. So I guess I owe him something and besides I did enjoy his sense of the wild even though I lived in the city. Looking back I see how prescient he was about so many of the issues which face us all today.

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