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Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Variety
Diversity
Living
Makes
Matter
Things
Pledge

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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
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Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
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Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
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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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I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
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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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... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
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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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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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