The Practice of the Wild. Gary Snyder

      

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Dedication

       PREFACE

       THE ETIQUETTE OF FREEDOM

       The Compact

       The Words Nature, Wild, and Wilderness

       Wildness

       The World Is Watching

       Back Home

       THE PLACE, THE REGION, ANT THE COMMONS

       The World Is Places

       Understanding the Commons

       Bioregional Perspectives

       Finding “Nisenan County”

       TAWNY GRAMMAR

       The Same Old Song and Dance

       The Kuuvangmiut and the Humanities

       Nature’s Writing

       Mother Leopards

       GOOD, WILD, SACRED

       Weeding Out the Wild

       Waterholes

       Shrines

       True Nature

       BLUE MOUNTAINS CONSTANTLY WALKING

       Fudō and Kannon

       This

       Homeless

       Larger Than a Wolf, Smaller Than an Elk

       Decomposed

       Walking on Water

       ANCIENT FORESTS OF THE FAR WEST

       After the Clearcut

       At Work in the Woods

       Evergreen

       Excursus: Sailor Meadow, Sierra Nevada

       Us Yokels

       ON THE PATH, OFF THE TRAIL

       Work in Place of Place

       Freedom at Work

       THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED A BEAR

       The Story

       On “The Woman Who Married a Bear”

       Maria Johns and the Telling of This Story

       Arkadia

       At the Bear Dance

       SURVIVAL AND SACRAMENT

       An End to Birth

       Cultured or Crabbed

       Grace

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       BY WAY OF THANKS

       Copyright Page

      By Gary Snyder

      POETRY:

       Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems

       Myths and Texts

       The Back Country

       Regarding Wave

       Turtle Island

       Axe Handles

       Left Out in the Rain

       No Nature

       Mountains and Rivers Without End

       Danger on Peaks

      PROSE:

       Earth House Hold

       He Who Hunted Birds in His Father’s Village

       Passage Through India

       The Practice of the Wild

       A Place in Space

       The High Sierra of California (with Tom Killion)

       Back on the Fire

       Tamalpais Walking (with Tom Killion)

      POETRY AND PROSE SELECTIONS: