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Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

Rebecca Solnit
Memories, Perception, Together

It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense of place. When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for you when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

Rebecca Solnit
Memories, Exploring The World, Giving
Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.16, Penguin

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
Memories, Butterfly, Mean
Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.10, Granta Books

Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory, the places that made you, and in some way you too become them. They are what you can possess and in the end what possesses you.

Rebecca Solnit
Memories, Decision, Tangible

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