HONORING THE WILD: Part 8 Deep Ecology for the 21st Century
Guest: Gary Snyder Program 2723
Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 5/1/1998 Program Length: 1 Hour
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Program Description: After years of patience and persistent invitations, we finally persuaded respected writer and ecologist Gary Snyder to give us an hour of his exquisite insights into humans and nature: What does "wild nature" really mean? Through your lifestyle, are you honoring it? Destroying it? Learning anything from it? Snyder offers specific advice on practical ways to improve your personal relationship to wild nature, understand the global situation more fully, and work to improve the ecological health of your own local community. "We have a long and respectable history of being deeply involved and totally at home in the natural world," says Snyder, "and we can recapture that. We can live it again." This is a conversation not to be missed. Included in Deep Ecology for the 21st Century. 1 hour
Snyder is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Turtle Island and many other books of poetry and essays. He is a mountain climber, student of Zen, and a founding father of the Beat generation.
Topics explored in this dialogue:
Acquainting yourself with wildness
The spiritual and philosophical traditions behind deep ecology
Why the global economy is a social and ecological disaster
The history and significance of May Day
The need for international labor organization
Snyder's own home and community
What happened to the Sierra wolverine
How you can live more ecologically
A new take on the Communist Manifesto and fundamental Islam
When we can expect world problems to be worked out
The special role of artists, dancers and cave paintings
