How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now. — 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
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
“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
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes a technological world is that the terms of nature are obscured; one need not live quite in the present or… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“One whose testimony made a major impact more than a decade ago is Ben Barres, formerly Barbara Barres, a biologist at Stanford… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds… — 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
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an… — 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
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“...William Stegner...coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could… — 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 wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“A year ago, I was at a dinner in Amsterdam when the question came up of whether each of us loved his… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot… — 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,… — 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
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
“Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“...Not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut… — 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
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“It is in the nature of things to be lost and not otherwise. Think of how little has been salvaged from the… — 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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