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Space Quotes by 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 that space. Otherwise…
- The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic…
- We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
- Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of…
- The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To…
- In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and…
- As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in…
- I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth…
- Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between…
- 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…
- Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.
- 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…
- 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…
- Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put…
- More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat…
More Space Quotes
- What four realms? (Amanda) Time, space, earth, and dreams. (Talon) Okay, now that is scary. Some of you guys walk through time?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll… — Roseanne Barr
- I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. — Luis Barragan
- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward… — Pope Benedict XVI
- I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening,… — Thomas Merton
- There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If… — Mark Twain