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One Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- 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…
- 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…
- There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.
- People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
- They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are…
- 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…
- The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,…
- Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the…
- 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…
- I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam…
- The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
- Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone,…
- Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
- We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important,…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle