In depth exploration of Gary Snyder's inheritance and development of Claude Levi Strauss' anthropological ideas. Snyder, hailed as the most ecologically conscious poet of the 20th century, goes beyond the natural wilderness in his understanding of wildness, believing that wildness also exists in culture and literature. Snyder's' The Practice of the Wild 'elaborates in detail on his views on wildness. Existing research mostly focuses on the relationship between wilderness and wildness, or interprets it from the perspectives of phenomenology and Zen, but neglects the direct connection between Snyder and Levi Strauss. Snyder once admitted to being deeply influenced by Levi Strauss, especially his book "Wild Thinking". Snyder repeatedly quotes Levi Strauss' viewpoint in his works, emphasizing that wild thinking is a sensory mind that continues to this day, and literary works embody the primitive wild thinking of humanity. He drew inspiration from Levi Strauss' analysis of the totemic system of primitive tribes, advocating for the dissolution of anthropocentrism and recognizing the kinship between humans and other species. Snyder also drew inspiration from Levi Strauss' viewpoint, proposing that modern writers should draw nourishment from the wild side of human nature and environment, and bring together wild thinking in their works. By drawing on and absorbing the ideas of Levi Strauss, Snyder developed his own wild poetics and ecological cycle concept, forming a wild ecological poetics with the mission of reshaping modern human cognition.

Concrete and intuitive thinking

In depth exploration of Snyder's inheritance and development of Levi Strauss' concrete and intuitive thinking mode of primitive tribes. Levi Strauss believed that the wild thinking of primitive tribes was not domesticated by civilization and had a broad perspective, which was preserved in mythology and art. Snyder repeatedly uses the metaphor of "national parks" in his works, emphasizing that poetry should gather wild thinking and draw on its nutrients. Wild thinking is based on sensory perception to concretely understand the world, with familiarity, concern, and precise knowledge of the biological environment, consistent with the self driving factors of modern science, both of which are a thirst for objective knowledge.

Scientific materialist view of nature

In depth exploration of Snyder's inheritance and development of Levi Strauss' anthropological ideas, particularly regarding the materialist view of nature in science. Levi Strauss proposed in "Wild Thinking" that although primitive concrete sensory thinking and modern science have different methods of understanding the world, theoretically they can complement each other. Snyder agrees with this viewpoint and emphasizes the scientific nature of wild thinking in "Poetry and Primitives", believing that it has been preserved and revived by artists, yogis, poets, and some scientists.