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I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.

Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 26
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