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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.
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I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
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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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Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.
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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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We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
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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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Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
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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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Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.
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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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Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.
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Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.
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Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
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It's animal by animal that you save a species.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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