Diane Ackerman Quotes

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in…
• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have…
• A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
• Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
• I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
• Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
• Success produces success, just as money produces money.
• We live on the leash of our senses.
• Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
• Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
• Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
• I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
• I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual…
• Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
• Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
• Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
• My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
• Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
• The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

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