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Diane Ackerman has 129 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I…
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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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…
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins…
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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…
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,…
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the…
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I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.
— John Banville
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One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones
— Finn Juhl
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
— Democritus
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The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a…
— Walter Pater
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Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.
— Morley Baer
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Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time…
— Thomas Kinkade
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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin,…
— Charles Jencks
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