Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn't an absence but the presence of something else, a kind of humming silence in which solitude seems as natural to your species as to any other, words strange rocks you may or may not turn over.


A Field Guide to Getting Lost (ed. Penguin, 2006) - ISBN: 9781101118719

Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn't an absence but...

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn't an absence but...

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn't an absence but...

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn't an absence but...