Top 160 Diane Ackerman Quotes (2024 Update)
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Diane Ackerman Quote: “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.”

151. “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.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.”

152. “The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.”

153. “Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.”

154. “Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “They spend their whole lives yelling at the world and each other. They yell at their loved ones, they yell at their enemies, they yell at their dinner, they yell at the big bustling world.”

155. “They spend their whole lives yelling at the world and each other. They yell at their loved ones, they yell at their enemies, they yell at their dinner, they yell at the big bustling world.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “I suppose I try to be a translator of sorts, striving to translate emotion and vision into words, to express the life force of animals and landscapes, to give them voice. I pore over the lustrous details of nature and human nature. How different is this from a monk devoting his life to an illuminated manuscript?”

156. “I suppose I try to be a translator of sorts, striving to translate emotion and vision into words, to express the life force of animals and landscapes, to give them voice. I pore over the lustrous details of nature and human nature. How different is this from a monk devoting his life to an illuminated manuscript?”

— Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman Quote: “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.”

157. “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

Diane Ackerman Quote: “If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.”

158. “If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.”

159. “Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “Each photograph is a magic lamp rubbed by the mind.”

160. “Each photograph is a magic lamp rubbed by the mind.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “The faint pink coating the treetops promised rippling buds, a sure sign of spring hastening in, right on schedule, and the animal world getting ready for its fiesta of courting and mating, dueling and dancing, suckling and grubbing, costume-making and shedding-in short, the fuzzy, fizzy hoopla of life’s ramshackle return.”

161. “The faint pink coating the treetops promised rippling buds, a sure sign of spring hastening in, right on schedule, and the animal world getting ready for its fiesta of courting and mating, dueling and dancing, suckling and grubbing, costume-making and shedding-in short, the fuzzy, fizzy hoopla of life’s ramshackle return.”

— Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman Quote: “Heschel wrote of his childhood in Warsaw, “there was one thing we did not have to look for and that was exaltation. Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment is unique.”

162. “Heschel wrote of his childhood in Warsaw, “there was one thing we did not have to look for and that was exaltation. Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment is unique.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it’s a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.”

163. “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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Diane Ackerman Quote: “What sort of stewards of the future planet will today’s digital children be?”

164. “What sort of stewards of the future planet will today’s digital children be?”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “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.”

165. “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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Diane Ackerman Quote: “In September 2013, the panel of 209 lead authors and 600 contributing authors, from 39 nations, poring over 9,200 scientific publications, came to these landmark conclusions: global warming is “unequivocal,” sea levels are rising, ice packs are melting, and if we continue at this pace we “will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate.” However, they added, we can slow the process down if we begin at once.”

166. “In September 2013, the panel of 209 lead authors and 600 contributing authors, from 39 nations, poring over 9,200 scientific publications, came to these landmark conclusions: global warming is “unequivocal,” sea levels are rising, ice packs are melting, and if we continue at this pace we “will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate.” However, they added, we can slow the process down if we begin at once.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.”

167. “But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “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.”

168. “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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Diane Ackerman Quote: “The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.”

169. “The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.”

170. “We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.”

171. “Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “I’m sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.”

172. “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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Diane Ackerman Quote: “We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it’s against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don’t talk about them, or we don’t talk about them as much.”

173. “We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it’s against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don’t talk about them, or we don’t talk about them as much.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “I have one talent,” he wrote, “and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas.”

174. “I have one talent,” he wrote, “and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas.”

— Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman Quote: “Meanwhile, the war storm blew violently, scaring all, and “casting a shadow on the lives of our Guests, who fled from the entrance of crematoriums and the thresholds of gas chambers,” needing more than refuge. “They desperately needed hope that a safe haven even existed, that the war’s horrors would one day end,” while they drifted along in the strange villa even its owners referred to as an ark.”

175. “Meanwhile, the war storm blew violently, scaring all, and “casting a shadow on the lives of our Guests, who fled from the entrance of crematoriums and the thresholds of gas chambers,” needing more than refuge. “They desperately needed hope that a safe haven even existed, that the war’s horrors would one day end,” while they drifted along in the strange villa even its owners referred to as an ark.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “Thank you, Merciful Lord, for having arranged to provide flowers with fragrance, glow worms with their glow, and to make the stars in the sky sparkle.”

176. “Thank you, Merciful Lord, for having arranged to provide flowers with fragrance, glow worms with their glow, and to make the stars in the sky sparkle.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “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.”

177. “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.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.”

178. “Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.”

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Diane Ackerman Quote: “Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.”

179. “Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.”

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