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Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call white is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.
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[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.
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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
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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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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.
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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
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Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
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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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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.
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There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
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I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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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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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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