Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains, — 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
Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those… — 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
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles… — 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… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is… — 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
The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral… — 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 bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in… — 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… — 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
…there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of… — 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
I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned. — 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
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of… — 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
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
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing 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
“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
![“For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking…” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/654/rebecca-solnit-569_austen_for-jane-austen-and-the-readers-of-pride_2924842.jpg)
![“[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1e6/rebecca-solnit-569_high-places_in-mountaineering-if-we-look-for-private_78831.jpg)
