Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imaginat… - Rebecca Solnit

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Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use. [ — ] [T]ime spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space — for wilderness and for public space — must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space.

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Rebecca Solnit (born June 24, 1961) is an American writer. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art.

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