Earth House Hold
Fire lookout, logger, Zen student in Japan: journals from before the ecological ethics they describe had acquired a name or a movement.
Journal entries, essays and fragments from Snyder twenties and thirties, written while working as a fire lookout, a logger, and a Zen student in Japan. Published in 1969, it reads now as an early statement of an ecological ethics that had not yet acquired a name or a movement.
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Maria Popova
In a passage from Earth House Hold (public library) — the 1969 collection of journal entries and poem fragments from his twenties and thirties — Snyder writes:
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