A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent… — 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
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We embrace two-legged beings, and can warm to four-legged beings, too, but for most people, six legs is pushing it. Most don't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — 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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