...the subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we i… - Rebecca Solnit

" "
...the subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.

Rebecca Solnit

Wanderlust: A History of Walking · 2002 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

walking page-3

English

Collect this quote

About Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit (born June 24, 1961) is an American writer. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art.

Biography information from Wikiquote

All quotes from Rebecca Solnit Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Rebecca Solnit:

Ursula K. Le Guin Salman Rushdie Margaret Atwood Joyce Carol Oates Ben Okri

Additional quotes by Rebecca Solnit

The promenade is a special subset of walking.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

Howard Zinn wrote in 1988, in what now seems like a lost world before so many political upheavals and technological changes arrived, “As this century draws to a close, a century packed with history, what leaps out from that history is its utter unpredictability.

...the subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be investe… - Rebecca Solnit

About Rebecca Solnit

Additional quotes by Rebecca Solnit