The quality of a place and season transforms the same activity into something different
Evidence
There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting, and ruffed-grouse hunting. … There are two places to hunt grouse: ordinary places, and Adams County. … There are two times to hunt in Adams: ordinary times, and when the tamaracks are smoky gold. This is written for those luckless ones who have never stood, gun empty and mouth agape, to watch the golden needles come sifting down, while the feathery rocket that knocked them off sails unscathed into the jackpines. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 197
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The same practices gain distinct functions when relocated to urban settings — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1098; Motion alters a quality’s mode of being rather than its essence; Some tastes and pleasures are irrecoverable once context has shifted — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 367 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- urban practices are distinctive not in origin but in meaning and function
#corroborates(0.90) - The same practices gain distinct functions when relocated to urban settings
#corroborates(0.85) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1098 - Some tastes and pleasures are irrecoverable once context has shifted
#corroborates(0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 367 - Motion alters a quality’s mode of being rather than its essence
#qualifies(0.75) - Anticipatory travel moments produce distinctive joy distinct from daily life
#exemplifies(0.75) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1274 - Growing familiarity transforms urban public space into semiprivate home territory
#corroborates(0.73) - Worldliness differs by mode of living, not by location in the world
#qualifies(0.72)