Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable.
Rebecca SolnitTags: walking las-vegas page-286
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: intelligence thinking reflection exercise walking
He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.
Laura Adams ArmerTags: music animals walking songs hearts
As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.
Tags: freedom america walking land private-property sign
I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noël CowardEvery walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.
Rebecca SolnitWalking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.
Rebecca SolnitTags: walking
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.
Rebecca SolnitTags: language walking architecture cities possiblity
A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
Rebecca SolnitTags: walking alienation
The promenade is a special subset of walking.
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