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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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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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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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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
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Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?
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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
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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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Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
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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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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.
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Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
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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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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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