In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we… — 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
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you… — 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
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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