Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Journey, Ecosystems

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.190, Penguin

• The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral pleasures. It weighs the obvious against what in its terms are incomprehensible. When I drive from here to there, speed, privacy, control, and safety are easy to claim. When I walk, what happens is more vague, more ambiguous-and in many circumstances much richer. I am out in the world. It's exercise, though not so quantifiably as on a treadmill in a gym with a digital readout.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Exercise, Safety, Environmental

• At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Home, Vacation, Car

• You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

  Rebecca Solnit

  What Matters, Style, Pleasure

  Source: www.believermag.com

• ....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Three, Going Out, World

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.178, Penguin

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