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We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.
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No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.
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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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To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.
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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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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
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Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?
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In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.
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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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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
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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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The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
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