“But, without meaning to exactly, one still tends to conjure up scary scenarios, their pathos or salvation, as if one could endure… — Diane Ackerman Suffering Copy Share Image
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman Pins Copy Share Image
“Nearby, on the other side of the wall, life flowed on as usual, as yesterday, as always," one survivor wrote. "People, citizens… — Diane Ackerman Life Copy Share Image
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman Beautiful 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 Feels Copy Share Image
“How can love's spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?” — Diane Ackerman Love Copy Share Image
“I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing… — Diane Ackerman Anxiety Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine. — Diane Ackerman Breaking someone Copy Share Image
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman Animal Copy Share Image
Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in… — Diane Ackerman Animals Copy Share Image
“I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery,… — Diane Ackerman Life 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 Memory Copy Share Image
“A good strategy should dictate the right actions. Any action mustn't be impulsive, but analyzed along with all its possible outcomes. A… — Diane Ackerman Strategy Copy Share Image
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they… — Diane Ackerman Chaos Copy Share Image
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough… — Diane Ackerman Goes on Copy Share Image
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched… — Diane Ackerman Add Copy Share Image
“[T]here is only one zot, thisness. Zot is a feminine word for "this." The word zot is itself one of the names… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Writing, which is my form of celebration and prayer, is also my form of inquiry.” — Diane Ackerman Prayer Copy Share Image
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot,… — Diane Ackerman Complexity 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 Grief Copy Share Image
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in… — Diane Ackerman Amputation Copy Share Image
We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky. — Diane Ackerman Constellations Copy Share Image
“At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that… — Diane Ackerman Animals Copy Share Image
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman Childhood Copy Share Image
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