Christine's review
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
Quote From Book:
I kept coming back to this route for respite from my work and for my work too, because thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closet to doing nothing is walking. Walking itself is the intentional act closet to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals. After all those years of walking to work out the other things, it made sense to come back to work close to home, Throeau's sense, and to think about walking. Walking ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are algined, as thought they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord. Walking allows us to be in our b...more
I kept coming back to this route for respite from my work and for my work too, because thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closet to doing nothing is walking. Walking itself is the intentional act closet to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals. After all those years of walking to work out the other things, it made sense to come back to work close to home, Throeau's sense, and to think about walking. Walking ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are algined, as thought they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord. Walking allows us to be in our b...more
