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Rebecca Solnit Quotes

To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story Picture Quote #1

Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the earth wrapped in sky Picture Quote #1

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss Picture Quote #1

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go Picture Quote #1

Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken to the body before the mind Picture Quote #1

Instar implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far Picture Quote #1

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Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but it's nature should not be Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? Picture Quote #1

I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small Picture Quote #1

I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one Picture Quote #1

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured Picture Quote #1

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Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender Picture Quote #1

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction Picture Quote #1

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen Picture Quote #1

Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains Picture Quote #1

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark Picture Quote #1

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do Picture Quote #1

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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable Picture Quote #1

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing Picture Quote #1

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them Picture Quote #1

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant Picture Quote #1

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination Picture Quote #1

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone Picture Quote #1

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I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands Picture Quote #1

Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors... disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors. One lives in the whole world rather than in interiors built up against it Picture Quote #1

We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing Picture Quote #1

The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell Picture Quote #1

Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are Picture Quote #1

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice Picture Quote #1

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To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the earth wrapped in sky (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken to the body before the mind (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Instar implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but it's nature should not be (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) 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 Quotes) How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) 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 Quotes) A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors... disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors. One lives in the whole world rather than in interiors built up against it (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice (Rebecca Solnit Quotes)

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