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Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit
American Writer
Born: Jun 24, 1961
Great Life Me People World You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. Rebecca Solnit
Kindness Day You Yourself Every Day World Style Every Minute Generosity Hour Well Making Just Might
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. Rebecca Solnit
Beautiful Nature Spring Revolution Earthquake Unpredictable Always Coming Surprise Should
Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts. Rebecca Solnit
People Worldview Toss Given Facts Between Always How How Many People Interesting Choice Many
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live. Rebecca Solnit
Me Rights People Tyranny Live Worst Seems Always Form Including Right Violence
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish. Rebecca Solnit
Great World Water Gift Weather Big Living Air Everything Has-Been Great Gift Temperature Atmosphere Small Allow Oceans Were Been Years Forests Precisely Us Planet Large Including Whose Species Seasons Nearly Flourish Millions Millions Of Years
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully. Rebecca Solnit
Great Survival People Calm Improvise Others Resourceful Great Majority Risk Beyond Majority Beautifully Altruistic Conditions Themselves Even
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn. Rebecca Solnit
Democracy Own Strangers Able Rather Powerful Comfortable Exercise Around Becoming Familiar Walking Than Begins Body Pawn Your Expressive Streets Imagine
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
Work War People World Better Will Better World Beauty Build Everywhere Threatening Some Forces Survive Which To Survive Us Planet Guaranteed
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. Rebecca Solnit
Survival Dignity Speak Liberty Having Up Show Right Basic
People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another. Rebecca Solnit
People Build Lost Community Rebuild Other Way Ways One-Way Kitchens Another Deal Shelters Children Rescue Each Eventually
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way. Rebecca Solnit
Future People Emotions Language Edge Past Everyone Way About Trivial Feel Disasters Talk Also Concerns Course Past And Future Lot Very Intense Anxieties Often Us Gratuitous Away Right
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
Work Together People Bad Things Calm Few Improvise Community Babies Everybody Resourceful Months Collapsed Out Systems Bad Emergency Kitchen Hospital Never Feed Putting Most Well Altruistic Getting Happen Whether Which Pattern Really Next Things
Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility. Rebecca Solnit
People Rare Situation Other Panic Some Insignificant Scene Civility Fact Primordial Disaster Sort Terrified Looting Revert Trying Manage May Essentially In Fact Flee Each
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals. Rebecca Solnit
World Fate Sometimes Corporate Entirely Seems Deals Decided Ether Communications Electronic
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap. Rebecca Solnit
Best You World Live Those Gifts Has-Been Given Struggles Through Count Beauties Freedoms Over Protected Built Passionate Heap Been Won Centuries Us Much Your Many Growing Activists Among Last
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
Home Win Nation Matters State Everywhere Dinosaurs Follows Badly California Because Goes Often Oil Where Want Happens Home State Here
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body. Rebecca Solnit
Life Politics Relationship Wonderful Path Space Mind Gender Thinking Everything Parades More Pursue Through Between Demonstrations Subject Walking Interested Urban Public Realized Body Marches Deeply Started

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