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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
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Kind
Visuals
Visual
Emotions
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Design
Emotion

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Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
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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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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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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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Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
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And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.
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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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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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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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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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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
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Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.
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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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Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
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