Rebecca Solnit Quotes about Journey

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

Rebecca Solnit

Journey, Hiking, Mountain