Compass Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It…

— Rebecca Solnit

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…

— Rebecca Solnit

“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how…

— Rebecca Solnit

“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.”

— Rebecca Solnit

In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe…

— Rebecca Solnit

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the…

— Rebecca Solnit

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…

— Rebecca Solnit

“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance…

— Rebecca Solnit

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world…

— Rebecca Solnit