"Roads are a record of those who have…" — Rebecca Solnit

"Roads are a record of those who have gone before."

— Rebecca Solnit

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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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 memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's… — Michele Bachmann
I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every… — Michele Bachmann
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them… — Erykah Badu
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is… — James A. Baldwin
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you… — Christian Bale
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended… — Douglas Adams
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are… — Gerry Adams

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