There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink. — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
![“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. ... I knew well the state of vigorous calm he meant, a frequent visitor throughout my own life. [p. 290]” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ef6/diane-ackerman-1035_bright-future_out-of-the-blue-paul-reported-feeling-bo_566856.jpg)
![“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 color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/707/diane-ackerman-1035_cities_symbolic-of-life-hair-bolts-from-our-hea_194991.jpg)
