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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
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Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
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Waukegan
Illinois
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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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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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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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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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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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No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.
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I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.
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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
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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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Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
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hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.
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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
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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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Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
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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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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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