Spirit of Place

“But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly more at home. The sum of a field’s forces becomes what we call very loosely the ‘spirit of the place.’ To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made of parts, each of which is whole. You start with the part you are whole in.”

— Gary Snyder (Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1998)

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