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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
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Arrive
Adventure
Travel
Find
Take
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
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Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
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Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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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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No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.
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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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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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I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.
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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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We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
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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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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
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Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
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