Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They cannot be counted because each unit has a qualitative character: a style of tactile apprehension and kinesthetic appropriation. Their swarming mass is an innumerable collection of singularities. Their intertwined paths give their shape to spaces. They weave places together. In that respect, pedestrian movements form one of these 'real systems whose existence in fact makes up the city.' They are not localized; it is rather they that spatialize. They are no more inserted within a container than those Chinese character speakers sketch out on their hands with their fingertips.
Michel de CerteauTag: pedestrians 97 footsteps
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.
Michel de CerteauTag: walking 97 footsteps trace
It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
Michel de CerteauTag: walking 98 footsteps pedestrianism
Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.
Markus ZusakTag: heart body disbelief wild heavy footsteps
But are my footsteps silent?
Are they just holes within the sand?
Or does another hear them, follow,
And find me where I am?
Tag: footsteps
When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction.
Molly FriedenfeldTag: inspirational inspirational-quotes heart path life-purpose footsteps molly-friedenfeld
How do you know when it's me?"
"Your footsteps are apologetic?"
"What does that mean?"
She turned, smiling wiping her hands on her long, black skirt. "It doesn't mean anything," she said. "Everybody else here just does what they want to do and doesn't think twice about it. But you're never sure.
Tag: sense personality sound footsteps confidence-and-attitude
I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own.
Truth DevourTag: creativity independence footsteps
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