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Space—as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience—has vanished.
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A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.
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Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.
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Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned...
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Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.
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Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.
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A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.
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The questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.
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Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about.
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Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.
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There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.
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You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...
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EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains,
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Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.
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Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.
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The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
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Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.
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Despair is a black leather jacket that everyone looks good in. Hope is a frilly, pink dress that exposes the knees.
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
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Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
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Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
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Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
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Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.
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Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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June 24, 1961
(age 62)
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