Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Imagination

• What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Mean, Sea

  "The Faraway Nearby". Book by Rebecca Solnit, www.npr.org. June 6, 2013.

• For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Adventure, Self, Imagination

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.17, Canongate Books

• To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Writing, Imagination, Might

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.57, Penguin

• Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Cities, Imagination, Quality

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin

• Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use…time spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space — for wilderness and public space — must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Fighting, Space, Imagination

• They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Animal, Imagination

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.97, Penguin

• Una ciudad siempre contiene más de lo que cualquier habitante puede saber, y una gran ciudad siempre hace de lo desconocido y lo posible acicates para la imaginación.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Cities, Imagination, Spurs

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin

• A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Imagination, Empathy

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.5, Granta Books

• As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Dream, Imagination, Unexpected

  "Civil Society at Ground Zero" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

• Resulta que en realidad somos capaces de algo distinto al neoliberalismo y en realidad somos capaces de disfrutar más que bajo el neoliberalismo. Da la sensación de que si el neoliberalismo consiste primero en privatizar el deseo y la imaginación antes que la economía, entonces estamos en este proceso de publicitarlo de nuevo.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Imagination, Desire, Neoliberalism

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Fighting, Journey, Hiking

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