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Rebecca Solnit Quotes

I walk wherever my errands take me Picture Quote #1

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white Picture Quote #1

The promenade is a special subset of walking Picture Quote #1

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness Picture Quote #1

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies Picture Quote #1

Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom Picture Quote #1

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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 body and the body through the world Picture Quote #1

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts Picture Quote #1

Earlier 18th century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street Picture Quote #1

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation Picture Quote #1

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey... but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world Picture Quote #1

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together Picture Quote #1

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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 element has made writing and walking resemble each other Picture Quote #1

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found Picture Quote #1

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back Picture Quote #1

Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from being destroyed by resource extraction and wholesale development Picture Quote #1

What distinguishes a technological world is that the terms of nature are obscured; one need not live quite in the present or the local Picture Quote #1

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't - and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown Picture Quote #1

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Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness Picture Quote #1

But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss Picture Quote #1

I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival Picture Quote #1

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist Picture Quote #1

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist Picture Quote #1

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last Picture Quote #1

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In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds Picture Quote #1

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone Picture Quote #1

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of Picture Quote #1

There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things Picture Quote #1

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after Picture Quote #1

It's become standard practice to erect a miniature police state around any globalization summit, and these rights free zones seem to prefigure what corporate globalization promises Picture Quote #1

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I walk wherever my errands take me (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) The promenade is a special subset of walking (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) 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 body and the body through the world (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Earlier 18th century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) A labyrinth is a symbolic journey... but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) 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 element has made writing and walking resemble each other (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from being destroyed by resource extraction and wholesale development (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) What distinguishes a technological world is that the terms of nature are obscured; one need not live quite in the present or the local (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't - and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after (Rebecca Solnit Quotes) It's become standard practice to erect a miniature police state around any globalization summit, and these rights free zones seem to prefigure what corporate globalization promises (Rebecca Solnit Quotes)

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