Wise old man …

… Gary Snyder, 'Poet Laureate of Our Continent,' Lives in the Present. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

“I’m one of those people in whom the experiential and the intellectual is not clearly divided,” he told Sheehy. “When I first heard about Native American sweat lodges, without even thinking twice about it, I went out and built a sweat lodge and did it.… In the same way, as soon as I read about Buddhism, I sat down and crossed my legs to see how it would work.”

I saw Snyder read at Temple University years ago — sometime in the '70s. Tempus fugit.