Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate -- love commands a… — Diane Ackerman Agree Copy Share Image
“Metaphor isn't just decorative language. If it were, it wouldn't scare us so much. . . . Colorful language threatens some people,… — Diane Ackerman Life Copy Share Image
“...as zookeepers, the Zabinskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity… — Diane Ackerman Page-242 Copy Share Image
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But,… — Diane Ackerman Consciousness 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
An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her… — Diane Ackerman Catalyst 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
Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with… — Diane Ackerman Changed Copy Share Image
Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk. — Diane Ackerman Brain Copy Share Image
Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well. — Diane Ackerman Assessment Copy Share Image
“Myself, I've always been organized in waves. For months on end, slowly descending into disorder, I drift with the status quo. Then… — Diane Ackerman Organizing Copy Share Image
In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be… — Diane Ackerman Absence Copy Share Image
“A perfect balance is possible to imagine, but impossible to reach, so one is always trembling along an arc from too excited… — Diane Ackerman Perfect balance Copy Share Image
“There one could also find a special kind of pierogi, large chewy kreplach: fist-sized dumplings filled with seasoned stew meat and onions… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm. — Diane Ackerman Bitter Copy Share Image
Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny… — Diane Ackerman Claim Copy Share Image
I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb… — Diane Ackerman Always Copy Share Image
“I have one talent," he wrote, "and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas.” — Diane Ackerman Life Copy Share Image
“In her diary she described Tuzinka as a giant bundle, the largest baby animal she'd ever seen, weighing in at 242 pounds,” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine… — Diane Ackerman Bags Copy Share Image
When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart. — Diane Ackerman Biking Copy Share Image
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations. — Diane Ackerman Brain Copy Share Image
If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we… — Diane Ackerman Amazed Copy Share Image
