Rebecca Solnit Quotes

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• The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise…
• The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never…
• How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
• I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL…
• Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and…
• Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it…
• For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote…
• The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists fully only in…
• I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am…
• Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it…
• Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
• When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there…
• We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.
• Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.
• Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.
• If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that…
• The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic…
• We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
• EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains,
• Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of…

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