--- title: "3 Hiking Quotes By Michel de Certeau" description: "3 Hiking quotes by Michel de Certeau. Plus more from Michel de Certeau and more Hiking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/562/michel-de-certeau-15812_abandon_first-if-it-is-true-that-a-spatial-order_348558.png" --- > [First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/first-if-it-is-true-that-a-spatial-order-organizes-an-ensemble-of/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/562/michel-de-certeau-15812_abandon_first-if-it-is-true-that-a-spatial-order_348558.png) > [It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/it-seems-possible-to-give-a-preliminary-definition-of-walking-as-a/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c54/michel-de-certeau-15812_definitions_it-seems-possible-to-give-a-preliminary_1656354.png) > [The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/the-walking-of-passers-by-offers-a-series-of-turns-and-detours-that/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/michel-de-certeau-15812_art_the-walking-of-passers-by-offers-a-serie_2423872.jpg) ## Other authors on Hiking - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edward-abbey-31690.jpg) Edward Abbey 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/edward-abbey/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-muir-51985.jpg) John Muir 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/john-muir/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rebecca-solnit-77821.jpg) Rebecca Solnit 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/rebecca-solnit/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cheryl-strayed-23059.jpg) Cheryl Strayed 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/cheryl-strayed/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-o-douglas-95752.jpg) William O. Douglas 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/william-o-douglas/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jennifer-pharr-davis-48733.jpg) Jennifer Pharr Davis 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/jennifer-pharr-davis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-g-m-trevelyan-36570.jpg) G. M. Trevelyan 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/g-m-trevelyan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-cynthia-tucker-25774.jpg) Colin Fletcher 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/colin-fletcher/) ## More by Michel de Certeau > [“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/far-from-being-writers-founders-of-their-own-place-heirs-of-the/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/everyday-life-invents-itself-by-poaching-in-countless-ways-on-the/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/the-sick-man-is-taken-away-by-the-institution-that-takes-charge-not/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [ “His \[the pedestrian's\] elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts his at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/his-the-pedestrian-s-elevation-transfigures-him-into-a-voyeur-it-puts/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [To walk is to lack a place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/to-walk-is-to-lack-a-place/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/first-if-it-is-true-that-a-spatial-order-organizes-an-ensemble-of/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/a-place-lieu-is-the-order-of-whatever-kind-in-accord-with-which/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [“I lettori sono viaggiatori: circolano sulle terre altrui.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/i-lettori-sono-viaggiatori-circolano-sulle-terre-altrui/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/when-he-grew-old-aristotle-who-is-not-generally-considered-a/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [“Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They cannot be counted because each unit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/their-story-begins-on-ground-level-with-footsteps-they-are-myriad-but/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [“Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/finally-the-functionalist-organization-by-privileging-progress-i-e/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/one-is-a-socialist-because-one-used-to-be-one-no-longer-going-to/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/the-panorama-city-is-a-theoretical-that-is-visual-simulacrum-in-short/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/along-with-the-lazy-man-the-dying-man-is-the-immoral-man-the-former-a/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) > [ It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by \[city practitioners', everyday citizens'\] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/it-is-as-though-the-practices-organizing-a-bustling-city-were/) [Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/michel-de-certeau/#itemlist", "name": "3 Hiking Quotes By Michel de Certeau", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. 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