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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
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We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.
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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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...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
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Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
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Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
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We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
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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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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
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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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There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.
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