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

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
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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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Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.
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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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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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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
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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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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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We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.
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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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Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
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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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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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