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Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“Language matters. It is the. . .highest purpose of language to make things clear & help us see. We are all language detectives.”
— Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions: Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions
Tagged: Language, Linguistics, Communication, Words
“The destruction of the earth is due in part. . .to a failure of the imagination or to its eclipse by systems of accounting that can’t count what matters. . .so the task of naming & describing is an essential one.”
— Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
Tagged: Earth, Nature, environment, Pollution, human destruction, destruction of nature, Society
“Disaster requires an ability to embrace contradiction in both the minds of those undergoing it and those trying to understand it from afar.”
— Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Tagged: disaster, Extreme Situations
“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.”
— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide To Getting Lost
Tagged: lost, Desire, Identity
“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.”
— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide To Getting Lost
Tagged: Taking risk, opportunities, Acceptance
“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”
— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Tagged: Pain, danger, purpose
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