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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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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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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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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.
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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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No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.
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Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
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Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.
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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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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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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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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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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.
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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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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.
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
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It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
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