Promenade Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image ““The promenade is a special subset of walking.”” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Promenade Special Walking
“The start of any journey-whether pilgrimage or promenade-is one of life's true joys.” — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
“When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“I find I still adore walking. Absurd, obviously, what with it being merely a case of putting one foot in front of the other… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“There is no word to describe exactly what the High Line is to the non-architects among us, nor the collective reframing process required to… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“Walking is not just a poor substitute for running or exercising hard. It is a beautiful form of activity on its own.” — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How many ghosts might return to the promenade, haunted by the echoes of those promises, perhaps eager to catch a glimpse of what could… — A.J. Reid Copy Share Image
The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order .… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
When Å vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the… — Richie Benaud Copy Share Image
There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
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