A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
Rebecca SolnitTag: walking alienation
Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.
Rebecca SolnitWalking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.
Rebecca SolnitTag: walking
The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
Rebecca SolnitTag: magic epiphany errand street
Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.
Rebecca SolnitTag: imagination language street
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 SolnitTag: language walking architecture cities possiblity
The promenade is a special subset of walking.
Rebecca SolnitA labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.
Rebecca SolnitTag: journey maps walking labyrinth
Roads are a record of those who have gone before.
Rebecca SolnitTag: roads
The planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of a complex symbiosis with the land into the simpler piecework or agricultural labour for surplus and export.
Rebecca SolnitTag: fruit page-55 landscape orchards
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