"We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric……" — Diane Ackerman
"We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling."
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128 Quotes by Diane Ackerman
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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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…
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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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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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons…
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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God's first creature, which was light.
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with…
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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