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Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
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Screenwriter
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Waukegan
Illinois
Cups
Drink
Source
Would
Authenticity

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...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.
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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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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.
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There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.
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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.
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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
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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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We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
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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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One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
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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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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
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We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.
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Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.
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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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