Gary Snyder Quotes
Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe
Snyder, Gary. "Passage to More Than India." Earth House Hold, New Directions Publishing, 1969, p. 103.
There are two main interpretations of Hawking's statement: One that artifical beings will eventuall gain dominance and have no need for humans. The other is that humans will more and more incorporate computer technoliogy and powerful sensors into their bodies or eventually move human brains into artificial entities and the human race will evolve to the degree that our species as it exists now will no longer exists. Humans may well evolve themselves. It is not clear which of these views he leaned towards.
Gary Snyder is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (his early work has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist with anarchoprimitivist leanings. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis and for a time served as a member of the California Arts Council.
