“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it.… — Diane Ackerman Life Copy Share Image
Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs… — Diane Ackerman Alone 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
“One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot /… — Diane Ackerman Hinduism Copy Share Image
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman Adopting 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
“Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, Polish Customs, Traditions, and Folklore (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1996), p. 259. people” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source? — Diane Ackerman Authenticity Copy Share Image
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we… — Diane Ackerman Animals Copy Share Image
There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and… — Diane Ackerman Altered 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
What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and… — Diane Ackerman Caress Copy Share Image
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
“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the lenght of it. I… — Diane Ackerman Life Copy Share Image
Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections. — Diane Ackerman Bold 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 Health Copy Share Image
“In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest… — Diane Ackerman Gardening 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
“ [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
We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than… — Diane Ackerman Accidents Copy Share Image
Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive,… — Diane Ackerman Adventure Copy Share Image
Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite — Diane Ackerman Errands Copy Share Image
“It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves," he lamented.” — Diane Ackerman Aphasia Copy Share Image
Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy… — Diane Ackerman Animal 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
