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 Copy Share Image
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
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Out of the blue, Paul reported feeling bouts of calm euphoria, a mystical sense of all's-right-with-his-life-and-the-universe, a bright future in sight. ...… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her… — 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
Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Rescuers tended to be decisive, fast-thinking, risk-taking, independent, adventurous, openhearted, rebellious, and unusually flexible—able to switch plans, abandon habits, or change ingrained… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy… — 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
The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Without memories we wouldn't know who we are, how we once were, who we'd like to be in the memorable future. We… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Our days flowed around well-charted, often traveled courses, and yet, the underlying sense of falling out of time, out of the trajectory… — 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
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
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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