Body Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image “Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allows Bodies Bodies World Body Busy Made Walking Walking Allows World World Busy
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
Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to driving a long distance… — Lorne Rubenstein Copy Share Image
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom.… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking is simple and second nature for most of us. It's an everyday kind of activity, not something that's frequently the rage of fashion… — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
Walking is easy for most people to adopt into their lifestyle, regardless of their current level of fitness. Plus is convenient and fun! — Denise Austin Copy Share Image
[Walking's] overwhelming advantage is that it can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere-and it doesn't even look like exercise. — Kenneth H. Cooper Copy Share Image
Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit… — Gary Snyder 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
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
![“[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.” quote by Elizabeth von Arnim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38f/elizabeth-von-arnim-2484_delicate_walking-is-the-perfect-way-of-moving-if_2386061.jpg)
![“[Walking's] overwhelming advantage is that it can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere-and it doesn't even look like exercise.” quote by Kenneth H. Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f7f/kenneth-h-cooper-25202_advantage_walking-s-overwhelming-advantage-is-that_602450.jpg)
![“[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 point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1e6/rebecca-solnit-569_high-places_in-mountaineering-if-we-look-for-private_78831.jpg)
![“I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.” quote by Richard Branson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa1/richard-branson-256_adventure_i-ve-used-the-phoenix-centrifuge-to-repl_903.jpg)
