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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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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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To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.
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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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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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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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Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
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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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In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
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Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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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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Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
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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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