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Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
Diane Ackerman
Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.
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We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.
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Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
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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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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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Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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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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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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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman
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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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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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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Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?
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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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Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
Diane Ackerman
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
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