“The destruction of the earth is due in part. . .to a failure of the imagination or to its eclipse by systems of accounting that can’t count what matters. . .so the task of naming & describing is an essential one.”
More from Rebecca Solnit
“Language matters. It is the. . .highest purpose of language to make things clear & help us…”
“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even…”
“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even…”
“Disaster requires an ability to embrace contradiction in both the minds of those…”