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From 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…
- It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its…
- The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested…
- In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island…
- We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour,…
- 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…
- Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking…
- Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from…
- The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure…
- Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with…
- Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from,…
- The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all…
- The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and…
- Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are…
- More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat…
- The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and…
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