All Diane Ackerman Quotes
- Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to… Add
- The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe,… All
- Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and… Ancestors
- Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and… Animals
- I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors,… Ancestors
- Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between… Animals
- Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards.… Accept
- The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it… Erotic