“Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“One [project of Teddy Cruz's] is titled Living Rooms at the Border. it takes a piece of land with an unused church… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“What is the message that wild animals bring, the message that seems to say everything and nothing? What is this message that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To spin the web and not be caught in it, to create the world, to create your own life, to rule your… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Something wonderful happens to you and you instantly look back over your life and see it as a series of fortunate events… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We are all the heroes of our own stories, and one of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“All those summer drives, no matter where I was going, to a person, a project, an adventure, or home, alone in the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an… — 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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