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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
Emotion
Kind
Visuals
Visual
Emotions
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.
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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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Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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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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Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
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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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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.
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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.
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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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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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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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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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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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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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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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