Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains, — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
…there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field;… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from… — 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
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