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Some Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- 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…
- Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.
- 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…
- Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic enforcement…
- 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,…
- Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be…
- They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are…
- You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because…
- How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, 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…
- Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its…
- 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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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The next time someone gets in my face to fight, I'll show them pictures on my phone of an ant I once… — Nikhil Saluja
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater