Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Commitment, Doors

  "Hope In The Dark". Book by Rebecca Solnit, 2010.

• Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Journey, Hiking, Body

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.28, Penguin

• I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Sky, Space, Desert

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.59, Canongate Books

• A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mountain, Earth, Landscape

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.105, Penguin

• Sure, you can say nuclear power is somewhat less carbon-intensive than burning fossil fuels for energy; beating your children to death with a club will prevent them from getting hit by a car. Ravaging the Earth by one irreparable means is not a sensible way to prevent it from being destroyed by another. There are alternatives. We should choose them and use them.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Children, Mean, Car

• The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Earth, Corporations, Argument

  Source: therumpus.net

• The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Pace, Earth, Living Things

  "Rebecca Solnit: 2013 Will Be Year Zero In Our Climate Battle" by Rebecca Solnit, www.motherjones.com. December 31, 2012.

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