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Diane Ackerman Inspirational Quotes (99)

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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
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People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?
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Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
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Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
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The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
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[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.
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Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
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Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?
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To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.
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We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
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Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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Choice is a signature of our species.
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I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.
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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
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Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
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