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It's animal by animal that you save a species.

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
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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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Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.
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Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.
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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
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Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
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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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Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
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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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Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
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Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.
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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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... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
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It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
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Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
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I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.
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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
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