“...perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Instar implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to subscribe to a political ideology, move to a commune, or join the guerrillas in the mountains; you wake… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“You can rescue someone from danger, but not from change and death; the soldier who survives the battle becomes someone else, something… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It’s a boon to everyone who values and benefits from equality. It’s for all of us.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“Mountaineering is always spoken of as though summiting is conquest, but as you get higher, the world gets bigger, and you feel smaller in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
