Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnitis an American writer. She has written on a variety of subjects, including the environment, politics, place, and art. Solnit is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, where bi-monthly she writes the magazine's "Easy Chair" essay...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 June 1961
CountryUnited States of America
adventure reason turns
Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.
world body busy
Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.
love teacher hate
There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in this world. There's enough teachers, there's enough universities for everybody's needs to be met, and the reasons they aren't is not because of lack of resources. It's because of distribution, and that's the politics of hate, which is why this is a movement against that. It's a politics of love.
exploring-the-world mind way
EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains,
fall two getting-lost
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
garden las-vegas oasis
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable.
book solitude
Books are solitudes in which we meet.
people passionate movement
Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.
nihilism nothing-to-lose dangerous
There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.
cities imagination spurs
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.
grateful rights voice
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.
fall agency revolution
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
home winning oil
The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.
lying climate aliens
It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.