Come celebrate the life and times of Gary Snyder this Thursday at Stage North with a showing of “Practice of the Wild – A conversation with Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison.” Gary is arguably the most influential poet on the modern environmental movement and a major figure in American poetry, recognized with the Pulitzer Prize for his masterpiece “Turtle Island” in 1977. And Jim Harrison is no slouch either!
Gary has articulated timeless ideas about the relation between people and place which continue to resonate today. Before local was cool, he was digging in and “re-inhabiting” the Sierra Nevada in California. Before watershed based land management was mainstream, he was working (for decades!) on “Mountains and Rivers Without End” articulating a watershed philosophy. Invariably, I find leaders in the conservation community have been touched by Gary’s work.
My friend Roy Settgas and I are sponsoring this movie because Gary has influenced us both personally over the years and this is our way of sharing his work with our friends in our region. Please join me for the movie and a conversation afterwards about community, land, conservation, and our home land.
-Charly Ray
