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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Waukegan
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.
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Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?
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Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.
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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
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Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
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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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Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
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Choice is a signature of our species.
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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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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
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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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hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.
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Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
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We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I would say, I have a secret to tell you. And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly, you would answer: Whisper it into my mouth.
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