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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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Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the…
— Rumi
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Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.
— Jack Black
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.
— Empedocles
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You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris.
— RZA
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Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of…
— Charles Bukowski
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Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she…
— Suzanne Braun Levine
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