Senses Quote by Diane Ackerman Download Open image “We live on the leash of our senses.” — Diane Ackerman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Senses
We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be. — Lawrence Halprin Copy Share Image
“The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.” — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
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… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Our lives together, our duet, also continues to evolve, and even if we can’t go back to how it was, we’re designing a good… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“The etymology of the Hebrew word for prophet, navi, combines three processes: navach (to cry out), nava (to gush or flow), and navuv (to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
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… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80 to 90… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and… — Cruce Stark Copy Share Image
It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally… — Keith Lazelle Copy Share Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes. — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and… — Christine Ebersole Copy Share Image
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