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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

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
Look
Air
Looks
Standing
Think
Wind
Thinking
Feet
Wonder
Begins
Stars
Clouds
Actually
Sky
Earth
Tend

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