Rebecca Solnit quotes

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. (Rebecca Solnit)
Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts. View quote
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The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to. View quote
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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. View quote
Rebecca Solnit
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart. View quote
Rebecca Solnit
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other. View quote
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A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another. View quote
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Roads are a record of those who have gone before. View quote
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Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. View quote
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Books are solitudes in which we meet. View quote
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Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story. (Rebecca Solnit)
Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Walking... is how the body measures itself against the earth. View quote
Rebecca Solnit
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. View quote
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A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation. (Rebecca Solnit)
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. View quote
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I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels. View quote
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A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. View quote
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We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't. View quote
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Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit - Image
Photo: Charles Kremenak, CC BY 2.5
Occupation: American Writer
Born: June 24, 1961
Quotes count: 53