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Way Quotes by Diane Ackerman
- I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual…
- 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.
- 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…
- Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent…
- A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us…
- 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…
- We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
- I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so…
- An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment,…
- Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color…
- 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…
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