Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite. — Diane Ackerman Adults Copy Share Image
Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul. — Diane Ackerman Body Copy Share Image
Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive. — Diane Ackerman Alive Copy Share Image
In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?' — Diane Ackerman Borrowing Copy Share Image
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman Mirror Copy Share Image
Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another. — Diane Ackerman Abstraction Copy Share Image
“God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made - to our peril.” — Diane Ackerman Promise Copy Share Image
“Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90” — Diane Ackerman Agitated Copy Share Image
Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts. — Diane Ackerman Art Copy Share Image
“Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.” — Diane Ackerman Day life 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 Adventure Copy Share Image
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't… — Diane Ackerman Art 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
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman Adopting Copy Share Image
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has… — Diane Ackerman Cockroaches 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 Beings 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
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
“According to Jan, "The personality of animals will develop according to how you raise, train, educate them—you can't generalize about them. Just… — Diane Ackerman Animal 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 Book 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 Analysis 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 Associates 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
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman August 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 Appreciate Copy Share Image
A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive… — Diane Ackerman Baskets 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
“One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot /… — Diane Ackerman Hinduism Copy Share Image
“...he'd know about the role of mirror neurons in the brain, special cells in the premotor cortex that fire right before a… — Diane Ackerman Mirror Neurons Copy Share Image
“When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like… — Diane Ackerman Consider Copy Share Image
Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source? — Diane Ackerman Authenticity Copy Share Image
