Diane Ackerman

(168 votes)   There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Diane Ackerman
1948-, American Poet, Writer, Naturalist

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(64 votes)   I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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(61 votes)   Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

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(61 votes)   I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

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(58 votes)   Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

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(56 votes)   Success produces success, just as money produces money.

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(56 votes)   We live on the leash of our senses.

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(55 votes)   It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

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(54 votes)   Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

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(51 votes)   Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

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(49 votes)   A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

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