Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Rebecca Solnit More Quotes by Rebecca Solnit More Quotes From Rebecca Solnit We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. Rebecca Solnit focus space blue I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere. Rebecca Solnit disaster generosity resistance Think of civil society and the state as joined in a marriage of necessity. You already know who the wife is, the one who is supposed to love, cherish and obey: that's civil society. Think of the state as the domineering husband who expects to have a monopoly on power, on violence, on planning and policymaking. Rebecca Solnit wife husband thinking There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis. Rebecca Solnit practice self people EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains. Rebecca Solnit exploring-the-world mind way Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do. Rebecca Solnit passionate movement people A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience. Rebecca Solnit parades audience journey We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies. Rebecca Solnit empathy Credibility is a basic survival tool. Rebecca Solnit credibility survival tools We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't. Rebecca Solnit knows thinking 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. Rebecca Solnit oil winning home 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 citizens politician space Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story. Rebecca Solnit fate hero beautiful You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found. Rebecca Solnit strange desire lost Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender. Rebecca Solnit race doe class ....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints. Rebecca Solnit going-out three world The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely environmentalists being paid - but a lot of people are acting for something other than financial compensation. So if the tar sands pipeline doesn't get made, it's because a huge amount of people are doing something that doesn't involve remuneration, money, etc., because we're not actually the self-interested financial instruments that economists like to imagine we are. Rebecca Solnit oil self people That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like. Rebecca Solnit trying looks ideas I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state. Rebecca Solnit corporations want mean There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural. Rebecca Solnit disaster natural
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