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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
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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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
Diane Ackerman
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
Diane Ackerman
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
Diane Ackerman
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.
Diane Ackerman
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.
Diane Ackerman
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.
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I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.
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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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A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.
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No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.
Diane Ackerman
For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
Diane Ackerman
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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When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call white is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.
Diane Ackerman
Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
Diane Ackerman
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.
Diane Ackerman
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.
Diane Ackerman
And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.
Diane Ackerman