“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
-Gary Snyder
I had to take a little break earlier and get outside.. Nothing like watching some leaves fall from a tree or squirrel hopping through those leaves to refresh my mind. (I don’t need much to be entertained, to say the least). I read a bit of Gary Snyder this morning and watched some documentary tidbits about him while I was doing some work. Looking forward to exploring his work more in depth.
“But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field’s forces [become] what we call very loosely the ‘spirit of the place.’ To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made of parts, each of which is a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.” -Gary Snyder