Change Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

— Rebecca Solnit

“...perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“Instar implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong…

— Rebecca Solnit

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

“A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is…

— Rebecca Solnit

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want…

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

“The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual…

— Rebecca Solnit

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what…

— Rebecca Solnit

“You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way…

— Rebecca Solnit

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change…

— Rebecca Solnit

“You can rescue someone from danger, but not from change and death; the soldier who survives the battle becomes someone else, something…

— Rebecca Solnit