Snyder displays his commitment and belief in reinhabitation in Mountains and Rivers Without End through the use of a non-epic structure (Wayfaring 181).

In Snyder's poem Walking the New York Bedrock the reader is shown how important daily acts and maintenance of those acts are to community persistence and survival.

Place-making consists of both daily acts of renovating, maintaining and representing the places that sustain us, and of special, celebratory one-time events such as designing a new church or moving into a new facility. It can be done with the support of others or can be an act of defiance in the face of power" (Schneekloth, 1).

Snyder believes that the sense we have in community comes from history and habit. This is illustrated throughout his works that show a spiritual elegance and economic simplicity as he strips away everything except the ritual of daily activity by landscape and animals and things (Carolan, 3).

Conclusion

The work of Snyder brings about a clear if not idealistic sense of community through the use of landscape and habits that...

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