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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Illinois
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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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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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Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
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Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
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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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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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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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Choice is a signature of our species.
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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.
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Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
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It's animal by animal that you save a species.
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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.
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