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Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.”

Author

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'. more

“Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.”

Way Made Said Language Walks Cities Possibility Walking Limits Architecture Walkers

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being's soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible.”

Doe Soul Body Form Simple White Impossible Objects Particular Materials Higher Shapes Statues Whiteness

Book:Eifelheim

Source: Eifelheim

“A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.”

Audience Walking Alienation Participants Detached Lone Walkers

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.”