In 10 captivatingly meditative essays - including a new, previously unpublished essay - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writer Gary Snyder explores the ideas of Buddhism, wildness and the lessons that can be learnt from nature and the planet. First published in 1990, these essays stand as the mature centrepiece of Snyder's work and thought and are widely accepted as one of the central 20th century texts on the interaction of nature and culture.
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Poet As Essayist
26 Mar 2011
By Dr. Debra Jan Bibel
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This new edition, with a new preface, is as fresh and as important as its initial publication twenty years ago, indeed even more significant, as we are now experiencing the planet's own drive toward the wild with resulting climatic changes. I owned poetry of Gary Snyder, but I was not familiar with his prose. What a profound pleasure is his essays! Erudite, wide-ranging, and spiritual, the various sections look to indigenous peoples, their lore and way of life in comparative balance with the environment, to Snyder's own varied work experiences and sojourn in Japan to study Zen, to discussions of the flora and fauna of the Pacific coast and mountains. He properly distinguishes Nature, wilderness, and wild, and observes how civilization, mainly Western, has increasingly separated humankind from nature and from our animalness. [It is natural for people to create dense cities, differentiate labor, develop complex communications, and apply mathematics; ask a honeybee.] Underlying all the socio-political elements is guidance on grasping and living the deep ecology of existence, of rejoining the wild even while working in business offices and factories. Snyder's introduction of Buddhism is not its philosophies, nor its details of practices, but its lessons of practical living. Reading this book will give pause and help reconsider one's life and societal direction. It will help find beauty in the familiar and joy in wild weeds.
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Thoughtful
26 Jun 2012
By Margaret Thompson
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I have not read every essay in this collection, and while I might eventually, you can still benefit from reading it a bit at a time. Snyder is thoughtful and precise in his language, but not a wow-you writer. I liked that actually. I've read a lot about the environment, but still there were some ideas that hit home in a bit deeper ways. His essay on wildness particularly resonated with me, as we forget or try to tame it. But wildness is in all of us. My suggestion is to read these essays when you are in a reflective mood.
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A very inspiring book
31 July 2012
By Jaime Axel Ruiz
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The Practice of the Wild has been for me a revelation. It is not just a book about environment but a collection of texts and thoughts, including useful historical references about Nature , that enlarge our comprehension of the way we deal with the world. It helps us to behave in life, in our relations with other people, with plants, with animals. But it is not a book of self-help. It is poetry and inspiration, knowledge and conscience.
Snyder does not pretend to give us a formula, to impose a theory or a corpus of doctrine, he just shares his thoughts and experiences, and it is very well written.
I marked many pages with post-it because it is a book worth to be read again.
Snyder does not pretend to give us a formula, to impose a theory or a corpus of doctrine, he just shares his thoughts and experiences, and it is very well written.
I marked many pages with post-it because it is a book worth to be read again.
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