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
Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do. — 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
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
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
....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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains, — 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
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
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
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
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
Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. — 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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