Diane Ackerman quotes American author, poet, and naturalist Born: 10/07/1948 Country: usa

• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. (Diane Ackerman)
• Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world. (Diane Ackerman)
• I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life. (Diane Ackerman)
• Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. (Diane Ackerman)
• Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite (Diane Ackerman)
• Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. (Diane Ackerman)
• 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)
• When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion. (Diane Ackerman)
• When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart. (Diane Ackerman)
• Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people. (Diane Ackerman)
• 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. (Diane Ackerman)
• I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory (Diane Ackerman)
• To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit. (Diane Ackerman)
• 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. (Diane Ackerman)
• I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars. (Diane Ackerman)
• Love seems to be as Essential as Sunlight (Diane Ackerman)
• Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction. (Diane Ackerman)
• For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose? (Diane Ackerman)
• And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives. (Diane Ackerman)
• Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary. (Diane Ackerman)
• 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. (Diane Ackerman)
• In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations. (Diane Ackerman)
• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the lenght of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. (Diane Ackerman)
• It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between. (Diane Ackerman)
• “Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm. (Diane Ackerman)
• Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser. (Diane Ackerman)
• I do feel responsible. He used to be able to look after himself. Now he can't. That's so different, so strange. The big question is: Is more improvement really possible, or should I stop pushing him? (Diane Ackerman)

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