Rebecca Solnit Quotes

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

['March'] is a path you must take if you want to move from one point to another point. If you want to make it down this very long and troublesome road, follow this path. Follow this message. Follow this map. And you will get there some day.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

Direction determines destination.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

There are no signposts in the sea.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

I know how to find my way into the takedown.

I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.

Sometimes one misses the sign posts as you're going down the road. They aren't as obvious as they become when you get to the end of the road, so to speak.

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view