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Rebecca Solnit is an American writer known for her works on environmental, cultural, political, and social issues. Her writing spans a wide range of topics, including nature, travel, gender, and power. Her books include 'Wanderlust', 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost', and 'The Faraway Nearby'.

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“Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits, scars, skills, and other souvenirs.”

Self Home Body History 232

Book:The Faraway Nearby

Source: The Faraway Nearby

“As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.”

Thinking Mind Body Space Path Wonderful Subjects Walking Gender I Realized Pursue March Urban Demonstration Parades Urban Life

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“Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.”

Heart Body Produce Balance Walking Labor Strikes Rhythm Breathing Delicate Closest Arrivals

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.”

World Body Three Social Walks Pleasure Illness Going Out Restraint Prerequisites Free Time Places To Go

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.”

World Mind States Body Walking

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.”

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.”

World Humans Body Car Missing Creation Scales Limbs Injured Prosthetics

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.”

Kind Home Body Protect Survival Originals Species Preserves Gym Elsewhere Site Abandonment Wildlife Accommodate Exertion Habitat Vanishing

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.”

Body Earth Walks Journey Walking Wander Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.”

World Made Body Walking Busy

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.”

World Mind Body Walks Knowing Journey Share Walking Elements Wander Crucial Engagement Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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Born: June 11, 1961
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 347

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Wanderlust: A History of WalkingRelated source material

A Field Guide to Getting LostRelated source material

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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for PoliticsRelated source material

Recollections of My Nonexistence: A MemoirRelated source material

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