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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Evolving Interfere Keep New Species

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Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Add Again Call Cool Fall Field Hound Jazz Muscles Scissors Sharpening Someone Sound Stomach Thermometer Warm Weather Yield

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Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Claim Even Hear Living Season Seeing Them Tiny Trust Without

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We embrace two-legged beings, and can warm to four-legged beings, too, but for most people, six legs is pushing it. Most don't need multi-eyed, antennaed face time.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Beings Embrace Face Legs Most Need People Pushing Six Time Too Warm

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I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Alone Always Being Communicate Diving Feel Feelings Frustrations Loved May Others Poses Same Scuba Share Sights Though Underwater Unique Well You

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The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Am Dark Deeply Eggs Floating Lay Me Minute Moved Ocean Roe Sea Simple Truth Us Whose Woman Womb I Am

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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.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Animals Close Companions Internet May Movies Nature Necessary Physical Plants Plants And Animals Regard Satisfy See Spiritual Still Technological Television Them Up Worship Yearning

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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

Topics: About Blinders Certainly Daily Digital Digital Technology Enjoy Graces Many Opposed Our Rely Technology Virtual Ways Whose Worry

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When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Bridge Divide Done Evolved Exist Information Only Our Provide Relation Rewards Said Scouts Senses Volumes Warnings Who World

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When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Blowing Fringe Hail Hurricane Marbles Often Rain See Sideways Size Sometimes Starts Storm Town

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 7th, 1948

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