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The future is dark, with a darkness as much of the womb as the grave.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Arundhati Roy writes of “the dismantling of the Big—big bombs, big dams, big ideologies, big contradictions, big heroes, big mistakes. Perhaps it will be the Century of the Small.”
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
That invisibility or that obliviousness is one of the defining conditions of the modern world.
Rebecca Solnit • Orwell's Roses
“You were not made to live like animals/But to pursue virtue and know the world,”
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
that enormous exhilaration of consciously living in history.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
To be in California was to braid together various possibilities and to unravel the main thread.
Rebecca Solnit • The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
In A Paradise Built in Hell, her 2009 book about human response to disasters through history, Solnit describes how communities invariably come together during and after crises, developing new ways not just to survive but to thrive, healing old wounds, and finding joy in the process.