There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural. — 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
For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but… — 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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