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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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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Mysteries
Favorite
Mystery
Running
Seems
Love
Life
Enchant
Errands

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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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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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There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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