Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
![“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 color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/707/diane-ackerman-1035_cities_symbolic-of-life-hair-bolts-from-our-hea_194991.jpg)
