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I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
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Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Soul
Misery
Humbly
Hatred
Dishonor
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Architect
Peace
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
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Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
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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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When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call white is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
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... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?
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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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In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
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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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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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The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.
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Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
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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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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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