"Sense of place is the sixth sense, an……" — Rebecca Solnit
"Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together."
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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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More Compass Quotes
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
— John Perry Barlow
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars,…
— Joseph Addison
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My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
— Michael Biehn
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I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just…
— Michael Bloomberg
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
— Steve Chabot
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
— William Ellery Channing
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
— George H. W. Bush
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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