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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
Errands
Mysteries
Favorite
Mystery
Running
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Love
Life
Enchant

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
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Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
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Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
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Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
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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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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
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Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
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Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.
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I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.
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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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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
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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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It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
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