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Walking Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it…
- EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains,
- 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…
- Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.
- 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…
- Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through…
- The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested…
- 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…
- 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…
- For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.
- 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…
- A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
- A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.
- 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…
- The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as…
More Walking Quotes
- Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to… — Rajneesh
- If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far… — A. A. Allen
- Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but… — Alexander Graham Bell
- Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to… — Bob Gibson
- Keep walking the walk, one step at a time. — Joyce Meyer
- Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly? — A B Simpson
- I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it… — Emile M. Cioran