"The national polities of the modern world maintain their existence by deliberately fostered craving and fear. ... The “free world” has become economically dependent on a fantastic system of stimulation of greed which cannot be fulfilled, sexual desire which cannot be satiated and hatred which has no outlet. ... They create populations of “preta” — hungry ghosts, with giant appetites and throats no bigger than needles. The soil, the forests and all animal life are being consumed by these cancerous collectivities; the air and water of the planet is being fouled by them."

“The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.”

“Shambala Sun article "The Wild Mind Of Gary Snyder" by Trevor Carolan”

“The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.”

“I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years.”

“The national polities of the modern world maintain their existence by deliberately fostered craving and fear.”

“1991 audio interview with Gary Snyder by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio”