Best Rebecca Solnit Sayings
- It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy. Alien
- People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another. Build
- Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals. Backroom
- The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes. Badly
- There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. Appears
- Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live. Always Seems
- Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. Act
- 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 walk,… Airplane
- I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me… Bind
- 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 fine… Act
- The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival… Altruistic
- As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in… Body
- Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be… Beauty
- For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons,… Air
- At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get… Adjectives
- Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. Beautiful
- I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth… Alignment
- Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never… America
- ...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else. Cabeza
- In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may… Almost Entirely
- When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the… Abduction
- They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are… All
- Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between… Built
- All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope. Alexander
- 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… Articulates
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