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Few Quotes by Diane Ackerman
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to…
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or…
- A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part…
- If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do…
- 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,…
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