For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.
Rebecca SolnitI was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.
Rebecca SolnitNever to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.
Rebecca SolnitI still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.
Rebecca Solnit