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
We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it… — 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
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully… — 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'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I 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 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
There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive,… — 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
American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its… — 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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