Diane Ackerman Quotes - Page 6

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• There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.

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  Long, Waiting, Preparation

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.33, Vintage

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• It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

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  Brain, Essentials, Attention

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.239, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

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  Animal, Different, Needs

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.92, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.

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  Doors, Creative, Routine

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• The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

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  Sweet, Unrest, Logic

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems”, p.47, Vintage

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• Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.

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  People, Culture, Lost

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.52, Vintage

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• I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

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  Believe, Brain, Mirages

  Diane Ackerman (2012). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

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  Reality, Self, Mindfulness

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• Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

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  Successful, Environment, All Time

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

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  Eugenics, Shopping, Tree

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• I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

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  Civilization, Play, Humanity

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.210, Vintage

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• What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.

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  Morning, Dawn, Bones

  "The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death". Book edited by David Shields & Bradford Morrow, 2011.

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• Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.

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  Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

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• So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

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  Loneliness, Differences, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.259, Vintage

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• Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

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  Diversity, Matter, Living Things

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.278, Vintage

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• Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

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  Like Love, Innocent

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.19, Vintage

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• We live on the leash of our senses.

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  Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.18, Vintage

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• poetry had everything to teach me about life.

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  Poetry, Teach

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• Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.

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  Journey, Risk, Venture

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.132, Vintage

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• As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

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  Lying, Guilt, Fleeting

  Diane Ackerman (2017). “The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

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  Space, Broken, Joy

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• Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.

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  Garden, Smell, Sugar

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.9, Vintage

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• Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

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  Prayer, Writing, Celebration

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

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  Technology, Hurricanes, Reminders

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• Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

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  Habitat, Pageant, Evolve

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.92, W. W. Norton & Company

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