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Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Something
Arrive
Adventure
Travel
Find
Take
Going

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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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Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
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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.
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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
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