I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures. Gary Snyder
The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is Peace
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Mother Teresa
You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.
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Tom Hiddleston
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.
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Amit Kalantri
A path well traveled may still yield secrets that only one person may discover.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Gary Snyder
In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.
The Government finally decided To wage the war all-out. Defeat is Un-American. And they took to the air, Their women beside themin bouffant hairdosputting nail-polish on thegunship cannon-buttons. And they never came downfor they found, the groundis Pro-Communist. And dirty. And the insects side with...
Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied language and good dreams.
