Walks Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

I walk wherever my errands take me.

— Rebecca Solnit

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Rebecca Solnit

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

— Rebecca Solnit

For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places.…

— Rebecca Solnit

…there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to…

— Rebecca Solnit

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of…

— Rebecca Solnit

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were…

— Rebecca Solnit

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral…

— Rebecca Solnit

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of…

— Rebecca Solnit

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in…

— Rebecca Solnit

The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage…

— Rebecca Solnit