Quotes by Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

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The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the li — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
...William Stegner...coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation serve — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
A year ago, I was at a dinner in Amsterdam when the question came up of whether each of us loved his or her country. The — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in t — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in whic — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Feminism has both undone the hierarchy in which the elements aligned with the masculine were given greater value than th — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are th — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the oppo — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demo — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that flux, but th — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that flux, but th — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and envi — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Building a museum case and filling it with types of mussels is one way of knowing mussels; but on the shore, a mussel le — Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics