A handsome smokey-colored brown bear standing on his hind
legs, showing that he is aroused and watchful.
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath
appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings
damp sand on the fires of greed and war;
His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating
that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and
that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards
all grow in the realm of the Dharma...
- Gary Snyder
"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter
is so strong in me."
~~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh.~~
