“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway… — 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… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Love is a constant negotiation, a constant conversation; to love someone is to lay yourself open to rejection and abandonment; love is… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power.… — 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
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
“Many love stories are like the shells of hermit crabs, though others are more like chambered nautiluses, whose architecture grows with the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I talked about places, about the ways that we often talk about love of place, by which we mean our love for… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons people lock onto motherhood as a key to feminine identity is the belief that children are the way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was asked to talk to a roomful of undergraduates in a university in a beautiful coastal valley. I talked about place,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from… — 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
There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in… — 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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