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We live on the leash of our senses.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.
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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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Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
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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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The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
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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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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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Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
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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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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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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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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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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
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A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.
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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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What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.
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