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Choice is a signature of our species.

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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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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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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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Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.
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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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Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
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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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Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.
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Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.
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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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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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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
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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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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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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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We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
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