There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. — Diane Ackerman Astonishment Copy Share Image
“Must be I find you tough and lusty as the life, all toil and tempo, finesse and plain fight, with values so… — Diane Ackerman Life Copy Share Image
When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and… — Diane Ackerman Blowing Copy Share Image
“Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stalks the streets with dripping… — Diane Ackerman Dreams Copy Share Image
“Although Mengele's subjects could be operated on without any painkillers at all, a remarkable example of Nazi zoophilia is that a leading… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't… — Diane Ackerman Human nature 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
“Antonina felt convinced that people needed to connect more with their animal nature, but also that animals long for human company, reach… — Diane Ackerman Animals 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
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make… — Diane Ackerman Art 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
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman Language Copy Share Image
Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger. — Diane Ackerman Enough 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
“Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a sinkhole into the middle of the earth. ... Can waiting by definition… — Diane Ackerman Illness Copy Share Image
“Much more. We're joined at the heart." "Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky." "Too much boozing." His eyes… — Diane Ackerman Bad luck Copy Share Image
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions. — Diane Ackerman Attention Copy Share Image
“It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology." On… — Diane Ackerman Habits Copy Share Image
“Selves will accumulate when one isn’t looking, and they don’t always act wisely or well.” — Diane Ackerman 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
“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
“It's a funny thing," Jan went on, "she's not a child, she's not stupid, but her relationship with other people tends to… — Diane Ackerman Bad people Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy… — Diane Ackerman Adventure Copy Share Image
