Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation.
Rebecca SolnitStichwörter: walking
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Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.
Rebecca SolnitStichwörter: nature america page-66 landscape
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.
Rebecca SolnitStichwörter: nature landscape page-49
...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
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...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.
Rebecca SolnitMany people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors. One lives in the whole world rather than in interiors built up against it.
Rebecca SolnitStichwörter: walking
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.
Rebecca Solnit...in English the word 'peripatetic' means 'one who walks habitually and extensively.
Rebecca SolnitStichwörter: page-15
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
Rebecca SolnitStichwörter: gardening alexander-pope page-90
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.
Rebecca SolnitStichwörter: freedom jane-austen walking page-100
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