Rebecca Solnit: Frasi in inglese
“Walking… is how the body measures itself against the earth.”
Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby
Origine: The Faraway Nearby
Origine: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)
Origine: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Contesto: Walking has been one of the constellations in the starry sky of human culture, a constellation whose three stars are the body, the imagination, and the wide-open world, and though all three exist independently, it is the lines drawn between them—drawn by the act of walking for cultural purposes—that makes them a constellation. Constellations are not natural phenomena but cultural impositions; the lines drawn between stars are like paths worn by the imagination of those who have gone before. This constellation called walking has a history, the history trod out by all those poets and philosophers and insurrectionaries, by jaywalkers, streetwalkers, pilgrims, tourists, hikers, mountaineers, but whether it has a future depends on whether those connecting paths are traveled still.
Rebecca Solnit libro Men Explain Things To Me
Origine: Men Explain Things to Me
“The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.”
Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.”
Origine: Hope in the Dark
Origine: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Origine: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
“A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.”
Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.”
Rebecca Solnit libro Men Explain Things To Me
Origine: Men Explain Things to Me
“Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.”
Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby
Origine: The Faraway Nearby
Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Rebecca Solnit libro Men Explain Things To Me
Origine: Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit libro Men Explain Things To Me
Origine: Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby
Origine: The Faraway Nearby
“A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.”
Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby
Origine: The Faraway Nearby
“Roads are a record of those who have gone before.”
Origine: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”
Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby
Origine: The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit libro Men Explain Things To Me
Origine: Men Explain Things to Me
“Books are solitudes in which we meet.”
Rebecca Solnit libro The Faraway Nearby
Origine: The Faraway Nearby
“Home is everything you can walk to.”
Origine: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
