Diane Ackerman Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• 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 reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

  Diane Ackerman

  Nature, Self, Irises

  Diane Ackerman (2002). “Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden”, G K Hall & Company

• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, Nature, Memories

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

• Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

  Diane Ackerman

  Nature, Fun, Joy

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.20, Vintage

• Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.

  Diane Ackerman

  Nature, Giving, Mercy

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.13, Vintage

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