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In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'
— Diane Ackerman
Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.
— Diane Ackerman
The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
— Diane Ackerman
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
— Diane Ackerman
Like love, travel makes you innocent again.
— Diane Ackerman
It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology. On
— Diane Ackerman
Selves will accumulate when one isn't looking, and they don't always act wisely or well.
— Diane Ackerman
Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
— Diane Ackerman
We're not looking at banning all weapons.
— Gary Ackerman
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
— Diane Ackerman
I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.
— Diane Ackerman
Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.
— Diane Ackerman
It's animal by animal that you save a species.
— Diane Ackerman
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
— Diane Ackerman
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
Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
— Diane Ackerman
Choice is a signature of our species.
— Diane Ackerman
Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
— Diane Ackerman
Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.
— Diane Ackerman
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
— Diane Ackerman
God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made - to our peril.
— Diane Ackerman
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
— Diane Ackerman
We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
— Gary Ackerman
Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
— Gary Ackerman
Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again!
— Diane Ackerman
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
— Diane Ackerman
Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.
— Diane Ackerman
When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.
— Elliot Ackerman
Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.
— Diane Ackerman
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
— Diane Ackerman
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.
— Diane Ackerman
The biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
— Diane Ackerman
Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
— Diane Ackerman
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
— Gary Ackerman
History is an agreed-upon fiction.
— Diane Ackerman
The Germans have removed, murdered or burned alive tens of thousands of Jews. Out of the three million Polsih Jews, no more than 10 percent remain.
— Diane Ackerman
Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?
— Diane Ackerman
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
— Diane Ackerman
We humans are obsessed with lights ... Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
— Diane Ackerman
Each photograph is a magic lamp rubbed by the mind.
— Diane Ackerman
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
— Diane Ackerman
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
— Diane Ackerman
Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
— Diane Ackerman
Music, the perfume of hearing, probably began as a religious act, to arouse groups of people.
— Diane Ackerman
Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.
— Diane Ackerman
Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
— Diane Ackerman
Become the healthiest person you can be. Refuse to tolerate unhealthy behaviors in your relationships,
— Robert J. Ackerman
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
— Diane Ackerman
Horses have made civilization possible.
— Diane Ackerman
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
— Diane Ackerman
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
— Gary Ackerman
Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
— Diane Ackerman
We carry the ocean within us; our veins mirror the tides.
— Diane Ackerman
one legend has it that Jews found Poland attractive because the country's name sounded like the Hebrew imperative po lin ("rest here").
— Diane Ackerman
We are defined by how we place our attention.
— Diane Ackerman
Nature rarely wastes a winning strategy.
— Diane Ackerman
For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.
— Diane Ackerman
It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves, he lamented.
— Diane Ackerman
Habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
— Diane Ackerman
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
— Diane Ackerman
I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.
— Diane Ackerman
No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.
— Diane Ackerman
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
— Diane Ackerman
We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
— Diane Ackerman
Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.
— Diane Ackerman
Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90
— 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
Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?
— Diane Ackerman
Love seems to be as Essential as Sunlight
— Diane Ackerman
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.
— Diane Ackerman
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
— Gary Ackerman
Patriots don't let their nation default.
— Gary Ackerman
If you're gonna have your head split open, it might as well be while you're riding a wave, dude.
— Meg Cabot
Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.
— Diane Ackerman
The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
— Diane Ackerman
Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm.
— Diane Ackerman
Today, instead of adapting to the natural world in which we live, we've created a human environment in which we've embedded the natural world.
— Diane Ackerman
Without memories we wouldn't know who we are, how we once were, who we'd like to be in the memorable future. We are the sum of our memories.
— Diane Ackerman
Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), p. x. "adhesions,
— Diane Ackerman
Love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
— Diane Ackerman
