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Diane Ackerman quotes

American Poet October 7, 1948

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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
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
Diane Ackerman quote: "Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the..."
Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite 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
Diane Ackerman quote: "Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is..."
Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary. Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman quote: "Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no..."
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman quote: "Love seems to be as Essential as Sunlight"
Love seems to be as Essential as Sunlight Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman quote: "How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines..."
How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable? Diane Ackerman
At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that question. A sleeper can be decoyed out of bed by the sheer beauty of dawn on the open seas. Part of my job, as I see it, is to allow that to happen. Sleepers like me need at some point to rise and take their turn on morning watch for the sake of the planet, but also for their own sake, for the enrichment of their lives. From the deserts of Namibia to the razor-backed Himalayas,... 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
The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its... Diane Ackerman
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way. Diane Ackerman
Our days flowed around well-charted, often traveled courses, and yet, the underlying sense of falling out of time, out of the trajectory of one's life, not by choice, but by subtraction, was frequent and disquieting. Then I grieved for him, for the lost and previous Paul. He grieved for that man too. Both our griefs were mainly private, internal, unuttered. Return was impossible, and there was only one direction open ; and so we kept our compass pointed forward. [p. 286] 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
I will not dishonormy soul with hatred, but offer myself humblyas a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace. I will honor all life Diane Ackerman

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