Gary snyder is regarded as their poet laureate by deep ecologists, and he has made great contributions to the global ecological movement. Snyder closely combined the primitive ecological wisdom of Indians with their life practice. He is a practical ecologist and ecological poet. This paper aims to study Snyder's original ecological wisdom from Indian culture, mainly from three aspects: animism, simple life and Gaia hypothesis.
A famous American beat poet, he translated the poems of China poet Han during his college years and traveled to on 1956. He lived in Japan for more than ten years and became a monk for three years, specializing in Zen. After returning home, he and his Japanese wife lived in seclusion in the northern mountainous area of Hugali. Under the idea of "returning to nature", his poems integrate Zen spirit into his poems, trying to accommodate historical and natural scenery into his heart, so as to make his poems closer to the true colors of things, so as to fight against the imbalance, disorder and ignorance of his time, and thus to be unique in contemporary American poetry circles with concise and clear language and wise insight.