Quotes by Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If th — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
...the act of remembering is imagined as a real act, that is, as a physical act: as walking...the means of retrieving th — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
This is what is behind the special relationship between tale and travel, and, perhaps, the reason why narrative writing — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies t — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an op — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his stud — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the w — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Women have routinely been punished and intimidated for attempting that most simple of freedoms, taking a walk, because t — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Of course women's walking is often construed as performance rather than transport, with the implication that women walk — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
It was a place as blank as a sheet of paper. It was the place I had always been looking for... Flat expanses would call — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
The fear of rape puts many women in their place - indoors, intimidated, dependent yet again on material barriers and pro — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Alone in the car with my social life all before and behind me, I was suspended in the beautiful solitude of the open roa — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the ca — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the stree — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking