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 buildchildcommunity Change image and share on social
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live. Rebecca Solnit baddepriveform Change image and share on social
The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs. Rebecca Solnit arcticbleachblue share on social
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 badlycaliforniadinosaur Change image and share on social
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 civilitydisasteressentially share on social
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening. Rebecca Solnit airplanecardead share on social
It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy. Rebecca Solnit alienchangeclimate Change image and share on social
To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.' Rebecca Solnit alternativeexceptionfine Change image and share on social
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 beautybuildforce share on social
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless. Rebecca Solnit bindcircumstanceearly Change image and share on social