“Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Bush invited his constituency to be blind to the world's real problems, and leftists often do the opposite, gazing so fixedly at… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse… — 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
A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our… — 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
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs… — 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
![“Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use. [--] [T]ime spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for…” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d80/rebecca-solnit-569_dull_musing-takes-place-in-a-kind-of-meadowla_271443.jpg)
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