Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation. Author: Rebecca Solnit Copy Quote More from Rebecca Solnit “Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the i…” “Some secret of nurture withered a generation or two before I arrived, if it had…” “I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the hor…” “Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best …”