[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“In a sense these books on walks for their own sakes are the literature of paradise, the story of what can happen… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“If you walk a city, if you love a city, if you put in your miles and years with open heart and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains, — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“As Nancy Frey writes of the long-distance pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, 'When pilgrims begin to walk several things usually… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
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