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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
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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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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
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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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Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
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To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.
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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
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We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I would say, I have a secret to tell you. And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly, you would answer: Whisper it into my mouth.
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.
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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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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.
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What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.
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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
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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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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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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
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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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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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