Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Journey

Quotes about: Journey

• Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

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  Dark, Journey, Stores

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.89, Canongate Books

• The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between
  internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was
  there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.

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  Thinking, Journey, Hiking

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin

• A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

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  Journey, Hiking, Landscape

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.54, Penguin

• Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.

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  Nature, Journey, Ecosystems

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.190, Penguin

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

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  Journey, Hiking, Body

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.28, Penguin

• For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

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  Pride, Journey, Thinking

• 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.

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  Journey, Hiking, Knowing

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.27, Penguin

• The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.

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  Spiritual, Journey, Hiking

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.10, Penguin

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

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  Journey, Differences, Labyrinth

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.56, Penguin

• The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).

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  Journey, Hiking, Mountain

• A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

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  Journey, Parades, Audience

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.165, Penguin

• The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Fighting, Journey, Hiking

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