Nature Quotes by Diane Ackerman

Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.

— Diane Ackerman

Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.

— Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

— Diane Ackerman

We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

— Diane Ackerman

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

— Diane Ackerman

“Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.”

— Diane Ackerman

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

— Diane Ackerman

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

— Diane Ackerman

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

— Diane Ackerman

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

— Diane Ackerman

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture…

— Diane Ackerman

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we…

— Diane Ackerman

“Antonina felt convinced that people needed to connect more with their animal nature, but also that animals long for human company, reach…

— Diane Ackerman

“Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a sinkhole into the middle of the earth. ... Can waiting by definition…

— Diane Ackerman

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside…

— Diane Ackerman

“I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery,…

— Diane Ackerman

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer…

— 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…

— Diane Ackerman

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

— Diane Ackerman

“ [Rainer Maria Rilke] speaks of absorbing Earth's phenomena with the full frenzy of human relish and insight as our destiny: "It…

— Diane Ackerman

“Must be I find you tough and lusty as the life, all toil and tempo, finesse and plain fight, with values so…

— Diane Ackerman

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy…

— Diane Ackerman

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice…

— Diane Ackerman

“The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like…

— Diane Ackerman

...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in…

— Diane Ackerman

When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like…

— Diane Ackerman

“When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like…

— Diane Ackerman

“One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot /…

— Diane Ackerman

“Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stalks the streets with dripping…

— Diane Ackerman

“I may enter a zone of transcendence, in which I marvel at all the accidents of fate, since the beginning of life…

— Diane Ackerman

“In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest…

— Diane Ackerman

“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

Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can…

— Diane Ackerman

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and…

— Diane Ackerman

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has…

— Diane Ackerman

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

— Diane Ackerman

Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with…

— Diane Ackerman

“How did he manage such feats of compassion while staying sane and creative? By stilling the mind and communing with nature: One…

— Diane Ackerman

I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The…

— Diane Ackerman