Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Transformation

Quotes about: Transformation

• In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Writing, Butterfly

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.91, Canongate Books

• How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?

  Rebecca Solnit

  Plato, Inspiration, Thinking

• The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never to get lost is not to live.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Want, Sides

  " Losing the plot, not the place" by Josh Lacey, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

• The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Decay, Transformation, Process

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.93, Canongate Books

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