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One Quotes by Diane Ackerman
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in…
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
- Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents…
- In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute…
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in…
- There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.
- 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…
- The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard,…
- I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.
- Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so…
- In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate…
- A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant…
- There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then…
- For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How…
- I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward…
- We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real…
- 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,…
- Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards.…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle