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"Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest."
- Benjamin, Walter

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6838/">Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/631/">Benjamin, Walter</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/cities_and_city_life/">Cities and City Life</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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