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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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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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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 don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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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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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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The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon .…
— Evelyn Waugh
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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No matter who we are in this world== we all are born with just two choices== angels and demons appear on both…
— Dru Stone
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This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may…
— Julian Barnes
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Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
— Edmund Waller
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I roll with Ladies just as tropic as the chronic in my pocket Cop it, Crush it, Roll it, Spark it, and…
— Lloyd Banks
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Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic…
— David Fairchild
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I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching…
— Charles Kingsley
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