Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Real, Garden, Space

• All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Garden, Landscape Painting, Pope

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.99, Granta Books

• 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 wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Garden, Vegas, Oasis

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