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Rebecca Solnit on Writing, Gardening, and the Life of the Mind
“As a writer, you withdraw and disconnect yourself from the world in order to connect to it in the far-reaching way that is other people elsewhere reading the words that came together in this contemplative state.”
Rebecca Solnit on Trees and the Shape of Time
“Trees are an invitation to think about time and to travel in it the way they do, by standing still and reaching out and down.”
Rebecca Solnit on Growing Up, Growing Whole, and How We Compose Ourselves
“Growing up, we say, as though we were trees, as though altitude was all that there was to be gained, but so much of the process is growing whole as the fragments are gathered, the patterns found.”
Rebecca Solnit’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Solace, Empower, and Transform Us
“Some books are toolkits you take up to fix things, from the most practical to the most mysterious, from your house to your heart… Some books are medicine, bitter but clarifying.”
An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Crisis as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness
“The constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times.”
Trees at Night: Rebecca Solnit Reads and Reflects on a Stunning Century-Old Poem by the Young Harlem Renaissance Poet Helene Johnson
An eighteen-year-old prodigy’s song of praise for the eternal consolation of trees.
Orwell’s Roses: Rebecca Solnit on How Nature Sustains Us, Beauty as Fuel for Change, and the Value of the Meaningless Things That Give Our Lives Meaning
“What is it that makes it possible to do the work that is of highest value to others and one’s central purpose in life? It may appear — to others, sometimes even to oneself — trivial, irrelevant, indulgent, pointless, distracted, or any of those other pejoratives with which the quantifiable beats down the unquantifiable.”
Rebecca Solnit on Love, Purposeful Work, and the Meaning of Liberty: An Empowered Retelling of Cinderella
“There are a lot of people with a lot of ideas about beauty. And love. When you love someone a lot, they just look like love.”
Rebecca Solnit on Rewriting the World’s Broken Stories and the Paradigm-Shifting Power of Calling Things by Their True Names
“To name something truly is to lay bare what may be brutal or corrupt — or important or possible — and key to the work of changing the world is changing the story.”
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