658 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

I walk wherever my errands take me.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be “apolitical” is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller’s art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

To hope is to give yourself to the future – and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.