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

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Beautiful Began Between Country End Lies Mystery Savage Will

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The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Crave Exile Miracle More Nature Ourselves Waters

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Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Alone Belongs Between Body Bond Brain Brains Child Feels Fusion Internal Matter Mother Neither Self Show Which Whose

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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.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: End Find Get Just Length Life Lived My Life Want Well

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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Life My Own Own Passenger Want

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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Alone Balance Distance Explored Further Harder Human Human Nature Nature Our Ourselves Own Precarious Present Protect Senses Spell Understand Will

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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Ape Brain Child Every Friend Important Inhabit Most Our Relationship Relationships Shapes Social Spouse Turn Whether Which

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

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Beyond Emotions Language Lie Moods Normal Only Poem Records Together

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Success produces success, just as money produces money.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Just Money Produces Success

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

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Admit Agree Everyone Just Love Love Is Necessary Wonderful

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 7th, 1948

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