Gary Snyder

Essays consider nature, wilderness, and man's place in the natural world

Essays

The Practice of the Wild

In ten captivatingly meditative essays, Gary Snyder explores the ideas of Buddhism, wildness and the lessons that can be learnt from nature and the planet.

Colton Ray

A great little book on nineties environmentalism, though the ideas here are timeless. I almost hate reading books about nature, because they inevitably get to the fact that yeah, humans are definitely screwing up the planet for everything else and unchecked capitalism and corporatism will basically destroy us all in another century or two and it makes it hard to focus on anything else, but that's my problem. The book itself was several slow meditating pieces on the state of the earth, environmental history, religious and cultural practices in Alaska and Japan, and Snyder philosophizing on the beauty of the world and the animals that live in it.

Andrew John Kinney

Gary Snyder has profound things to say about the wild, about recognizing our wildness, and a fair amount about Buddhist teachings.

The Practice of the Wild Essays

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