When one begins to lose touch with reality, the ill brain…

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

[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

“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

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

“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

“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

“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

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

“A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.”

— Rebecca Solnit