Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things. — Diane Ackerman Diversity Copy Share Image
“It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.” — Diane Ackerman Beautiful country Copy Share Image
“Selves will accumulate when one isn’t looking, and they don’t always act wisely or well.” — Diane Ackerman Looking 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 heart Copy Share Image
Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet. — Diane Ackerman Cubes Copy Share Image
The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink. — Diane Ackerman Drink 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
Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when… — Diane Ackerman Adventure 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
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman Air 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… — Diane Ackerman Art Copy Share Image
One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have… — Diane Ackerman Animal Copy Share Image
We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in… — Diane Ackerman Answers 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 Blinders Copy Share Image
One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire… — Diane Ackerman Beloved Copy Share Image
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman Age 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
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share… — Diane Ackerman Form 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
...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
“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
Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in… — Diane Ackerman Confidence 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
“The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like… — Diane Ackerman Curiosity 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… — Diane Ackerman Cities Copy Share Image
Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move. — Diane Ackerman Chemicals Copy Share Image
“Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment s unique.” — Diane Ackerman Every moment Copy Share Image
![“...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about…” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed7/diane-ackerman-1035_amputation_for-most-people-in-the-jewish-ghetto-of_2861976.jpg)
![“Invisible prose only!" rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces, rich with speculation, insight, and subjectivity, is the craft and offers a unique caliber of truth. Is there any other art form one would praise by saying it's…” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1ee/diane-ackerman-1035_art_invisible-prose-only-rules-out-the-spark_2706214.jpg)
![“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 color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/707/diane-ackerman-1035_cities_symbolic-of-life-hair-bolts-from-our-hea_194991.jpg)
