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Small Quotes by Diane Ackerman
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes…
- There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the…
- Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they…
- 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…
- Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.
- When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor.…
More Small Quotes
- Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. — William Shakespeare
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back.… — Drew Barrymore
- When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to… — James Belushi
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C.S. Lewis
- We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson