“Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.” — Diane Ackerman Death Copy Share Image
“Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment s unique.” — Diane Ackerman Every moment Copy Share Image
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our… — Diane Ackerman Civilization Copy Share Image
If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about… — Diane Ackerman Admire Copy Share Image
“Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), p. x. "adhesions,” — Diane Ackerman Yale university 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 Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles… — Diane Ackerman Jigsaw puzzle Copy Share Image
“Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm.” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“That evening, as I watched the sunset’s pinwheels of apricot and mauve slowly explode into red ribbons, I thought: The sensory misers… — Diane Ackerman Death Copy Share Image
“What remained would gradually acquire its own shape and dimension, but many of our favorite things, my favorite ways of being a… — Diane Ackerman Favorite thing Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have. — Diane Ackerman Block Copy Share Image
“Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph… — Diane Ackerman Funny Copy Share Image
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman Length Copy Share Image
“If an expectant mother stepped over a rope on the ground or under a clothesline, the umbilical cord would tangle during childbirth.… — Diane Ackerman Parenting Copy Share Image
Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things. — Diane Ackerman Diversity Copy Share Image
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. — Diane Ackerman May 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 Devising Copy Share Image
“Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other deliciously bogus-- to spark child's fantasies and gallop… — Diane Ackerman Animals 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 Care Copy Share Image
“Invisible prose only!" rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces,… — Diane Ackerman Art Copy Share Image
hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or… — Diane Ackerman Excitement Copy Share Image
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