Rebecca Solnit Quotes

I just skated for the fun of it.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

I'm interested in playing, not working.

I have a very easy life, I can wander around.

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

You need a lot of comfort and nothing to be on your weight to play as you wish.

I love taking my bike for a spin during my free time.

When I'm working on something and need to take a little break, I'll go down and play some video games.

I like to play, it doesn't matter where.

Treating myself is more about just going out and having a great hike, or going on a long motorbike ride.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free?

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.