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We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.
- Rebecca Solnit
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#Change
#Disaster
#Truth
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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
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#Money
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#Us
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
- Rebecca Solnit
#Dignity
#Liberty
#Show
#Speak
#Survival
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.
- Rebecca Solnit
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#Just
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Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.
- Rebecca Solnit
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#Live
#Man
#Me
#Men
I walk wherever my errands take me.
- Rebecca Solnit
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#Take
#Walk
#Wherever
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.
- Rebecca Solnit
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#Doing
#Society
#Thinking
#Walking
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.
- Rebecca Solnit
#Body
#Democracy
#Exercise
#Own
#Walking
Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.
- Rebecca Solnit
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#Choice
#Facts
#People
#Worldview
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
- Rebecca Solnit
#Act
#Face
#Joy
#Make
#Politics
Credibility is a basic survival tool.
- Rebecca Solnit
#Basic
#Credibility
#Survival
#Tool
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
- Rebecca Solnit
#Black And White
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#Grey
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Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
- Rebecca Solnit
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#Earthquake
#Nature
#Surprise
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
- Rebecca Solnit
#Day
#Every Day
#Kindness
#Style
#World
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
- Rebecca Solnit
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#Down
#Future
#Heart
#Way
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