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Been Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and…
- If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,…
- Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put…
- The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists…
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