"What a lonely species we are, searching for……" — Diane Ackerman
"What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity."
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128 Quotes by Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman has 128 quotes on this site.
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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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I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
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I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so…
— Adele
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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his…
— John Boehner
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Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing…
— Linford Christie
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of…
— Linda Hogan
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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a…
— Mark Twain
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
— William Manchester
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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to…
— Tony Robbins
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Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in…
— Patrick Henry
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The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in…
— Thomas Huxley
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Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and…
— Al Gore
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Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what…
— Isabella Rossellini
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