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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: 75
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.
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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.
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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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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
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Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.
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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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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.
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The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.
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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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Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
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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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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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