"The things we want are transformative, and we……" — Rebecca Solnit

"The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never to get lost is not to live."

— Rebecca Solnit

127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

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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…
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…
We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

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