The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more. — 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
Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where… — 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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