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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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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 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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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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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 are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.
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You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest…
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Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked…
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