In her diary she described Tuzinka as a giant bundle, the…

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to…

— Diane Ackerman

“Our lives together, our duet, also continues to evolve, and even if we can’t go back to how it was, we’re designing a good…

— Diane Ackerman

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

— Diane Ackerman

Horses have made civilization possible.

— Diane Ackerman

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky…

— Diane Ackerman

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical…

— Diane Ackerman

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…

— Diane Ackerman

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

— Diane Ackerman

“The etymology of the Hebrew word for prophet, navi, combines three processes: navach (to cry out), nava (to gush or flow), and navuv (to…

— Diane Ackerman

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness…

— Diane Ackerman

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…

— Diane Ackerman

“Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80 to 90…

— Diane Ackerman

Choice is a signature of our species.

— Diane Ackerman

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect…

— Diane Ackerman

Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.

— Diane Ackerman