In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think that fear of the mob, the expectation that people, particularly poor and nonwhite people become mobs almost automatically in the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What is kind of beautiful about Katrina is that even though the media and officials are working hard at telling us everyone… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a… — 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
There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise 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
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