It’s not that bad things never happen. But there’s a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well – whether it’s getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting together a community kitchen to feed everybody for the next few months. Rebecca Solnit Read Quote
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. Rebecca Solnit Read Quote
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. Rebecca Solnit Read Quote
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass. Rebecca Solnit Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we – and some of the beauty of this world – will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet. Rebecca Solnit Read Quote
It’s hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy. Rebecca Solnit Read Quote
Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don’t. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I’m not holding my breath. Rebecca Solnit Read Quote
I’m grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless. Rebecca Solnit Read Quote
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. Rebecca Solnit Read Quote
