All Diane Ackerman Quotes
- Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food,… Across
- Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive. Alive
- I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so… Any
- The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink. Drink
- Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger. Enough Rope
- I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity. Civilization
- An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment,… Any
- Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move. Beings
- What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it… All
- There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling… Along
- ...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --… Amputation
- There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then… All
- To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the… Begin
- When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so… Abide
- Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors.… All
- Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. Chaos
- Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually… Actually Begins
- The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest. Brings
- Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people. Change
- In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we… Across