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Our Senses Quotes by Diane Ackerman
- We live on the leash of our senses.
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's…
- We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net…
- Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food,…
- When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and…
More Our Senses Quotes
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence… — Galileo Galilei
- God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a… — Oswald Chambers
- Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of… — Joseph Addison
- When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. — Walter Russell
- Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of… — Jean Houston
- Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape… — Thomas Jefferson
- These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. — Margaret J. Wheatley
- To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making… — David Hume
- The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less… — Unknown Author
- Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not,… — Ada Lovelace