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We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

Diane Ackerman

Spiritual, Animal, May

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

Marriage, Children, Creative

Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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Choice is a signature of our species.

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Choices, Signatures, Species

Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.254, Vintage

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Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.

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Attitude, Flying, Flight

Diane Ackerman (1987). “On Extended Wings: An Adventure in Flight”, Scribner Book Company

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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

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Dust, House, Trying

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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.

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Wall, Cities, Space

"Living, Thinking Houses". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 4, 2012.

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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

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Mother, Hair, Squids

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An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

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Way, Nuggets, Moments

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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

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Distance, Balance, Human Nature

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the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

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Religious, May, Threat

Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.106, Vintage

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Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

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Ghouls, Safety, Usual

Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.

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Animal, Evolution, Plant

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Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

Diane Ackerman

Struggle, Journey, Garden

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Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

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Art, People, Inner Life

Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.7, Vintage

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Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

Diane Ackerman

Bats, Adults, Fur

Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.18, Vintage

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Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

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Rowdy, Alligators, Wells

Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.64, Vintage

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... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

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Love Is, Uprising, Mutiny

Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.39, Vintage

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It's animal by animal that you save a species.

Diane Ackerman

Animal, Animal Rights, Species

Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.19, Vintage

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Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent rage, self-pity, longing, heartbreak, cynicism, without losing the ability to think about what was happening to him. That took courage, I thought, living with the suffering in a mindful way, as an artifact of being, neither good nor bad.

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Inspirational, Thinking, Self

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Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

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Country, Eye, Animal

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In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

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Dog, Horse, Cat

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Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

Diane Ackerman

Brain, Trying, Causes

Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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