A Field Guide to Getting Lost

by Rebecca Solnit

ochers and reds and even lavender she had gathered in deserts

the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.”

These parables say that representation is always partial, else it would not be representation, but some kind of haunting double.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don’t—and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.