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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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• For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

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  Ifs

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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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• In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

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  Country, Flower, Winter

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• On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

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  Summer, New York, Eight

  "Living, Thinking Houses". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 2012.

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• Horses have made civilization possible.

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  Horse, Civilization, Made

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.35, Vintage

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• There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

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  Wind, White, Goes On

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• Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.

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  Sex, Latin, Vocabulary

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

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• 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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  Lonely, Zoos, Animal

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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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• So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and everything in my study. Because there's such a cascade of images and ideas that I'm grapping with mentally, I couldn't also be in a chaotic setting.

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  Book, Order, Ideas

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• Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

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  Jobs, Work, Coffee

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