658 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.

The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.

....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.