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
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Many events plant seeds, imperceptible at the time, that bear fruit long afterward.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field;… — 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
“To hope is to gamble. It’s to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and… — 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
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
“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
“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it;… — 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
“We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the… — 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
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a… — 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
“Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“...the past, like the future, is dark. There is so much we don't know, and to write truthfully about a life, your… — 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
“What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“...you don't have the memory of your future; {that}the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and… — 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
“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
“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it;… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I argued that you don’t know if your actions are futile; that you don’t have the memory of the future; that the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Goodwill is something you put away like preserves, for a rainy day, for winter, for lean times, and it was moving to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. There… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction has crept closer to fiction in our time in ways that are not flattering to fiction, in part because too many… — 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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