And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives. — Diane Ackerman Language Copy Share Image
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. — Diane Ackerman Couple Copy Share Image
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. — Diane Ackerman Birth Copy Share Image
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. — Diane Ackerman May Copy Share Image
... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny. — Diane Ackerman Body Copy Share Image
Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem. — Diane Ackerman Environmentalism Copy Share Image
Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away… — Diane Ackerman Found 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
Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue. — Diane Ackerman Contracts Copy Share Image
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters… — Diane Ackerman Bud Copy Share Image
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant… — Diane Ackerman Dies 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
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman Animal Copy Share Image
An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part… — Diane Ackerman Animal Copy Share Image
“The Germans have removed, murdered or burned alive tens of thousands of Jews. Out of the three million Polsih Jews, no more… — Diane Ackerman Israel Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for… — Diane Ackerman Compassion 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
“I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final… — Diane Ackerman Death Copy Share Image
“Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Higher IQs can perform certain… — Diane Ackerman Creative people 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
“Rescuers tended to be decisive, fast-thinking, risk-taking, independent, adventurous, openhearted, rebellious, and unusually flexible—able to switch plans, abandon habits, or change ingrained… — Diane Ackerman Habits 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 Balance Copy Share Image
“The etymology of the Hebrew word for prophet, navi, combines three processes: navach (to cry out), nava (to gush or flow), and… — Diane Ackerman Judaism Copy Share Image
I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving… — Diane Ackerman Behavior 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
We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent. — Diane Ackerman Animal 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 Feel Copy Share Image
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but… — Diane Ackerman Air Copy Share Image
“How can love's spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?” — Diane Ackerman Love Copy Share Image
As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie. — Diane Ackerman Emotion Copy Share Image
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. — Diane Ackerman Evolution Copy Share Image
Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul. — Diane Ackerman Depends 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
Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger. — Diane Ackerman Enough Copy Share Image
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. — Diane Ackerman Complexes Copy Share Image
I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests… — Diane Ackerman Details Copy Share Image
Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything… — Diane Ackerman Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), p. x. "adhesions,” — Diane Ackerman Ghetto Copy Share Image
Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he… — Diane Ackerman Life Copy Share Image
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention — Diane Ackerman Attention Copy Share Image
