“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the lenght of it. I… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“That evening, as I watched the sunset’s pinwheels of apricot and mauve slowly explode into red ribbons, I thought: The sensory misers… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Nearby, on the other side of the wall, life flowed on as usual, as yesterday, as always," one survivor wrote. "People, citizens… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Marek Edelman in Krall, Shielding the Flame. After the war Edelman became a cardiologist, commenting that "when one knows death so well,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“I may enter a zone of transcendence, in which I marvel at all the accidents of fate, since the beginning of life… — 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
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