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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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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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A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.
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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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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
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I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
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Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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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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Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
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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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It's animal by animal that you save a species.
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Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?
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