Rebecca Solnit: Walking

Rebecca Solnit is Author and essayist from United States. Explore interesting quotes on walking.
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“Walking… is how the body measures itself against the earth.”

Rebecca Solnit

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.”

Rebecca Solnit

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“A labyrinth is a symbolic journey… but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.”

Rebecca Solnit

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

World

“Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.”

Rebecca Solnit

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Time , Reading

“Home is everything you can walk to.”

Rebecca Solnit

Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Home

“Most of the time walking is merely practical, the unconsidered locomotive means between two sites. To make walking into an investigation, a ritual, a meditation, is a special subset of walking, physiologically like and philosophically unlike the way the mail carrier brings the mail and the office worker reaches the train.”

Rebecca Solnit

Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)

Way , Time , Training

“This history of walking is an amateur history, just as walking is an amateur act. To use a walking metaphor, it trespasses through everybody else’s field—through anatomy, anthropology, architecture, gardening, geography, political and cultural history, literature, sexuality, religious studies—and doesn’t stop in any of them on its long route.”

Rebecca Solnit

Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)

History , Literature , Study

“Walking has been one of the constellations in the starry sky of human culture, a constellation whose three stars are the body, the imagination, and the wide-open world, and though all three exist independently, it is the lines drawn between them—drawn by the act of walking for cultural purposes—that makes them a constellation. Constellations are not natural phenomena but cultural impositions; the lines drawn between stars are like paths worn by the imagination of those who have gone before. This constellation called walking has a history, the history trod out by all those poets and philosophers and insurrectionaries, by jaywalkers, streetwalkers, pilgrims, tourists, hikers, mountaineers, but whether it has a future depends on whether those connecting paths are traveled still.”

Rebecca Solnit

Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)

Imagination , History , Dependency , Mountain