658 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

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 is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains,

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.