Rebecca Solnit: Zitate auf Englisch
“Walking… is how the body measures itself against the earth.”
Quelle: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Quelle: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)
Quelle: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Kontext: 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.
“The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.”
Quelle: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Quelle: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Quelle: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
“A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.”
Quelle: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.”
Quelle: Men Explain Things to Me
“Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.”
Quelle: The Faraway Nearby
Quelle: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.”
Quelle: The Faraway Nearby
“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”
Quelle: The Faraway Nearby
“Books are solitudes in which we meet.”
Quelle: The Faraway Nearby
“Home is everything you can walk to.”
Quelle: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
