This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.” “Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.”
“A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.” “Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.” Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.” “A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. is how the body measures itself against the earth.” “The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.”
Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.” A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities.
“Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. “ solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.” 30 Great Quotations from Rebecca Solnit on Walking
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