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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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Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
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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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The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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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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An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
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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 humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
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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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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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