A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“One of the functions of landscape it to correspond to, nurture, and provoke exploration of the landscape of the imagination. Space to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Building a museum case and filling it with types of mussels is one way of knowing mussels; but on the shore, a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Feminism has both undone the hierarchy in which the elements aligned with the masculine were given greater value than those of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which… — 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
![“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every…” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85d/rebecca-solnit-569_1960s_perhaps-the-central-question-about-eliot_1534191.jpg)
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