We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found... — 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
Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than… — 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
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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