Beat Poet Gary Snyder, on Ecology. {Video}

Have you read Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums?

Gary Snyder, Beat Poet, Pulitzer-prize winning environmental activist before green meant anything other than a color—was immortalized in Kerouac’s Dharma Bums (which also featured my namesake, Philip Whalen) as charismatic simple-living mountain man, zen practitioner and yogi Japhy Ryder.

Check him out live, here: