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History is an agreed-upon fiction.

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
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Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Agreed
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History

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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
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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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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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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
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Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.
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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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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.
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We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
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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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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
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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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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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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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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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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
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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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Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
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There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.
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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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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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