All Diane Ackerman Quotes
- We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I… Answer
- Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. Element
- I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory Among
- Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color… Bolts
- When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor.… Allow
- Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite All
- For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How… Appealing
- I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward… All
- We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real… All
- Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success,… Alone
- Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary. Brightness
- And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives. Enormity
- Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live? Crueler
- Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. Couple
- Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul. Body
- We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than… Accident
- Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. All
- A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth. Best Love
- When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and… All
- When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see… Atlantic