“...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
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.”
George Eliot
Adam Bede
“Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.”
Sheryl Sandberg
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.”
Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak
“Society is better off with me in a gym.”
K.A. Tucker
Ten Tiny Breaths
“I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!”
Ellen DeGeneres