229 Quotes

“...William Stegner...coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it. ”
― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“From what I've read," I said to him, "the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower