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Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 26
Art Historian
Author
Environmentalist
Journalist
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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