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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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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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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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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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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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America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families…
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Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to…
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One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter…
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