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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

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

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

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, Spurs
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

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

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.

It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than we do under neoliberalism. It feels that if neoliberalism is first about privatizing desire and imagination before the economy, then we're in this process of publicizing it again.

Rebecca Solnit
Imagination, Desire, Neoliberalism
Source: www.guernicamag.com

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