Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul. — Diane Ackerman Body Copy Share Image
“Germany's crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is… — Diane Ackerman Crime Copy Share Image
“More broadly, the Nazis were ardent animal lovers and environmentalists who promoted calisthenics and healthy living, regular trips into the countryside, and… — Diane Ackerman Animal lover Copy Share Image
“Insight roams the sea of the unconscious like the Loch Ness monster, a rumor whose wake occasionally becomes visible, but even then… — Diane Ackerman Loch ness monster 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 Animals Copy Share Image
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman Always Copy Share Image
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman Attachment Copy Share Image
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. — Diane Ackerman Couple Copy Share Image
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and… — Diane Ackerman Electric Copy Share Image
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a… — Diane Ackerman Anthem Copy Share Image
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited… — Diane Ackerman Affair 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 Blur 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 Bright future Copy Share Image
The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity. — Diane Ackerman Knowing Copy Share Image
I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion. — Diane Ackerman Animal Copy Share Image
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the… — Diane Ackerman Brain 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
Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the… — Diane Ackerman Dramatic Copy Share Image
“I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. But I also sense the universe… — Diane Ackerman Philosophy of Mind 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
For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange. — Diane Ackerman Creative Copy Share Image
“Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against… — Diane Ackerman History Copy Share Image
