Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but… — 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
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, 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 consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting… — 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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