The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.


Wanderlust: A History of Walking (ed. Penguin, 2001) - ISBN: 9781101199558

Rebecca Solnit Quotes

The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested...

The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested...

The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested...

The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested...