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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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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Along
Knew
Forgot
Language
Reminds
Nature
Memorable
Human
Truths
Humans
Weren
Life
Somehow
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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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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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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
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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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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
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Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
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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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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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Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
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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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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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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
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Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
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We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
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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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We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.
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Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
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I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
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