Best Rebecca Solnit Quotations
- A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the… Barriers
- The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,… Afterward
- Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the… Always Contains
- Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and… Acts
- Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its… Alluring
- The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than… Architecture
- In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually… Auto
- ...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home… Abandonment
- Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. Experience
- We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather… Acquire
- For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a… Able
- Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable. Guard
- Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth. Body
- The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. Epiphany
- Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking… Act
- A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation. Alienation
- A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and… Blurring
- Roads are a record of those who have gone before. Gone
- A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. Best
- Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from… Civil
- Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together. Compass
- 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… All
- An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student… Adventure
- You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because… Blooms
- Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. Beat
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