Rebecca Solnit Way Quotations

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.

EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains,

It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.

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.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.