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Wander 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…
- 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…
- [In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main…
- 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,…
- 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.
- A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.
- 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 Wander Quotes
- Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. — Andrea Arnold
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a… — Mark Twain
- Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable… — Dalai Lama
- Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire'… — Terry Pratchett
- Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people… — Haruki Murakami
- Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- 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