"A lone peak of high point is a……" — Rebecca Solnit
"A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site.
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing…
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Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow…
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
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Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
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So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the…
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