"Walking . . . is how the body……" — Rebecca Solnit

"Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth."

— Rebecca Solnit

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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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