...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.
Rebecca Solnit...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
Rebecca SolnitThe things we want are transformative, and we donโt know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never to get lost is not to live.
Rebecca SolnitAn aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.
Rebecca Solnit