EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains, — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane. — 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
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
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
A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art,… — 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
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able… — 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
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
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
Sure, you can say nuclear power is somewhat less carbon-intensive than burning fossil fuels for energy; beating your children to death with… — 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
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that… — 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
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
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
Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture… — 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
The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense… — 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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