Rebecca Solnit Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. June 11, 1961
Birthday: June 11
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.
source: Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.97, Penguin
topic: Nature, Animal, Imagination, Beast Of Burden, Silencing
