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Diane Ackerman has 129 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 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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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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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand…
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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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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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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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to…
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There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open.…
— Kate Morton
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Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go…
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Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are…
— Diane Ackerman
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
— Barbra Streisand
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Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is…
— Charles Edward Montague
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and…
— Marcel Proust
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I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire…
— Marcel Proust
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