Rebecca Solnit

“People die in this war, but the ideas cannot be erased.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“Sometimes, cause and effect are centuries apart”

— Rebecca Solnit

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

— Rebecca Solnit

“Opposition is often illusory.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

— Rebecca Solnit

“Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

— Rebecca Solnit

“The promenade is a special subset of walking.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became…

— Rebecca Solnit

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

— Rebecca Solnit

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

— Rebecca Solnit

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

— Rebecca Solnit

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...

— Rebecca Solnit

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

— Rebecca Solnit

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

— Rebecca Solnit

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

— Rebecca Solnit

“Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It’s a boon to everyone who values and benefits from equality. It’s for all of…

— Rebecca Solnit

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs…

— Rebecca Solnit

“We have far more than eighty-seven thousand rapes in this country every year, but each of them is invariably portrayed as an…

— Rebecca Solnit

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather…

— Rebecca Solnit

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

“Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: you put down…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...”

— Rebecca Solnit

“I’m not arguing here that women and children don’t lie. Men, women, and children lie, but the latter two are not disproportionately…

— Rebecca Solnit

It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than…

— Rebecca Solnit

“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and…

— Rebecca Solnit

There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that…

— Rebecca Solnit

The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some…

— Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

“All those summer drives, no matter where I was going, to a person, a project, an adventure, or home, alone in the…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Bush invited his constituency to be blind to the world's real problems, and leftists often do the opposite, gazing so fixedly at…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Nonfiction has crept closer to fiction in our time in ways that are not flattering to fiction, in part because too many…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I'd wrestled against the inner voice of my mother, the voice of caution, of duty, of fear of the unknown, the voice…

— Rebecca Solnit

“We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the…

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

“The anthropoligical theorist Paul Shepard writes, 'Humans intuitivesly see analogies between the concrete world out there and their own inner world. If…

— Rebecca Solnit