Rebecca Solnit Short Quotes

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Space—as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience—has vanished.

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A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

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Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

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Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned...

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Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

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Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

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A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

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The questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

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Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about.

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Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

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There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.

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You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...

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EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains,

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Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

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

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

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

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Despair is a black leather jacket that everyone looks good in. Hope is a frilly, pink dress that exposes the knees.

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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.

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Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

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Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

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

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Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

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Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

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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.

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Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

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Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

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Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

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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.

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Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

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