"Some things we have only as long as……" — Rebecca Solnit

"Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant."

— 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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More Distant Quotes

This quote is filed under Distant Quotes, one of 842 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world… — Michelle Bachelet
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the… — Ezra Taft Benson
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving… — Hugo Black
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to… — Jack Black
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills… — Hal Borland
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors… — Jean de la Bruyere
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when… — Chanakya
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of… — William Ellery Channing
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. — Emile M. Cioran

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