The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
Rebecca SolnitWomen often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
Rebecca SolnitEXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.
Rebecca SolnitI am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.
Rebecca SolnitThe fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.
Rebecca Solnit