Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman Love Copy Share Image
We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling. — Diane Ackerman Creatures Copy Share Image
Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories. — Diane Ackerman Alligators Copy Share Image
“Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph… — Diane Ackerman Funny Copy Share Image
“Writing, which is my form of celebration and prayer, is also my form of inquiry.” — Diane Ackerman Celebration Copy Share Image
“No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.” — Diane Ackerman Algae Copy Share Image
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. — Diane Ackerman Element 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
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. — Diane Ackerman Artificial 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
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer… — Diane Ackerman Architect 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
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
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they… — Diane Ackerman Chaos 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
“What remained would gradually acquire its own shape and dimension, but many of our favorite things, my favorite ways of being a… — Diane Ackerman Favorite thing Copy Share Image
Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are… — Diane Ackerman Afternoon 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
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
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
“ [Rainer Maria Rilke] speaks of absorbing Earth's phenomena with the full frenzy of human relish and insight as our destiny: "It… — Diane Ackerman Nature 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 Consciousness 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 Breath 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
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman Apes Copy Share Image
The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but… — Diane Ackerman Find Copy Share Image
“All our senses feed the brain, and if it diets mainly on cruelty and suffering, how can it remain healthy? Change that… — Diane Ackerman Diet Copy Share Image
People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets… — Diane Ackerman Cities Copy Share Image
There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and… — Diane Ackerman Brain Copy Share Image
If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about… — Diane Ackerman Admire Copy Share Image
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a… — Diane Ackerman Behinds Copy Share Image
“But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles… — Diane Ackerman Couple Copy Share Image
I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a… — Diane Ackerman Affectionate Copy Share Image
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough… — Diane Ackerman Goes on Copy Share Image
[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if… — Diane Ackerman Delight Copy Share Image
“She had a very traditional Catholic upbringing and that didn't deter her. On the contrary it strengthened her determination to be true… — Diane Ackerman Self sacrifice Copy Share Image
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman Cities Copy Share Image
The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's… — Diane Ackerman Audrey Copy Share Image
“I do feel responsible. He used to be able to look after himself. Now he can't. That's so different, so strange. The… — Diane Ackerman Responsible Copy Share Image
The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels… — Diane Ackerman Clarity Copy Share Image
![“What remained would gradually acquire its own shape and dimension, but many of our favorite things, my favorite ways of being a couple, had vanished and it was no use pretending, hoping, wishing that he would return to his old self, and me to mine. [p. 156]” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/786/diane-ackerman-1035_favorite-thing_what-remained-would-gradually-acquire-it_2572419.jpg)
![“[Rainer Maria Rilke] speaks of absorbing Earth's phenomena with the full frenzy of human relish and insight as our destiny: "It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again... We are the bees of the…” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a8f/diane-ackerman-1035_nature_rainer-maria-rilke-speaks-of-absorbing-e_1894666.jpg)
![“[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e4/diane-ackerman-1035_delight_on-gardens-i-think-they-re-sanctuaries-f_2000109.jpg)
![“I do feel responsible. He used to be able to look after himself. Now he can't. That's so different, so strange. The big question is: Is more improvement really possible, or should I stop pushing him?' [p. 153]” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b7a/diane-ackerman-1035_stroke_i-do-feel-responsible-he-used-to-be-able_2240338.jpg)
