The Luxury of Yearning for Less

• Wed, Jan 4, 2023
• One-minute read

Rebecca Solnit:

You have to feel securely high to want to go low, urban to yearn for the rural, smooth to desire roughness, anxious about artificiality to seek this version of authenticity. And if you see the countryside as a place of rest and respite you’re probably not a farmworker.

Orwell’s Roses, p. 156