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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.
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Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
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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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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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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.
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Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.
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... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
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Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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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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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
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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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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
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It's animal by animal that you save a species.
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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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We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
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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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Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?
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