In three poems – “Old Woodrat's Stinky House”, “The Spirit of the Mountain” and “The Million Year Boat” – Gary Snyder uses the concept of deep time to show us how nature sees time and implies that humanity must be able to see time the same way. Snyder's poems imply that he believes that people have forgotten their place in the natural world and that we should try to regain our respect for nature. “Old Woodrat's Stinky House” explains what's wrong with the way we perceive time. “The Mountain Spirit” shows why nature sees time more as a singular thing than a series of segments as humans do. “The Million Year Old Boat” suggests a solution and implies that we should relax and follow nature's example. First, the poem "Old Woodrat's Smelly House" begins with a brief creation myth - Coyote and Earthmaker creating the planet - but the poet continues to write: We creatures have been together, something like three billion years, Gary Snyder he does this to help the reader perceive the vast amount of time before humans existed. Snyder later writes of "woodrat" being described as "everything stinks - pisses on everything". Wood rats (also known as packing rats) are known to spend their time collecting material objects of no practical value. Gary Snyder compares us as a species to the wild mouse in his poem. Further evidence of the human-woodrat connection: the "venerable desert woodrat nest" is described as "a family home in use for eight thousand years." This figure of "eight thousand years" is no coincidence; humans began building clay huts eight thousand years ago. Snyder then equates the "four thousand years of writing use" with the lifespan of a bristlecone pine as a demonstration of how young we are on this planet. He... mid-card... is "trying" to characterize humanity's need to control the natural world. Gary Snyder is really suggesting a world where we humans live with what happens and don't try to change the planet. The poem ends with the line "We are guided by dolphins into the morning" when connected to the idea of ​​a "boat of millions of years" this line presupposes that we as humans should realize that time is long and that we should follow the 'example of nature. Finally, all three poems are connected through the common theme of nature's perception of time. Two of the poems - "Old Woodrat's Stinky House" and "Mountain Spirit" - are linked to the common image of the bristlecone pine to show how long a single is. the being can live. Gary Snyder's poems show the reader: what is wrong with humanity's perception of time, how nature sees the times, and suggest that we must emulate nature to integrate more with the natural world..