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Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Animals Area Drop Facing Know Like Many Pressure Seek Sense Shelter Storm Threatens Together Wild Wind

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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Always Because Black Complexion Hair Mother Must Part Said

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I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Ancestors Any Back Cells Choices Define Few Further Future Grows Haunt Impulses Just Knowing Like Lineage Little Luck Path Side Them Traces Ultimately Will

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Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Animals Any Between Collection Exists Like Living Madly Means More Natural Natural World Our Own Sense Somewhere Though Ticking Time Watch World Zone Zoo

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Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Both Complex Complexity Embrace Excites Finds Garden Including Mind Order Orders Rewards Small Spot Struggles Them Too Vast

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Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Accept Always Beautiful Because Chaos Create Day Delight Find Garden Gardener Gets Human Japanese Just Last May Nature Next One Day Order Out Riot Rule Run Says Standards States Tame Want Word

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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Could Enjoy Flowers Grow If I Could Raising Skiing Tropical Winter Would

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The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Find Garden Generally Living Many May Midst Organism Parts Peace Regard Scratching Singing Thing Whole

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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Always Because Build Cockroach Dismiss Dust Exile Forbid God Houses Inside Like More More And More Nature Ourselves Outside Some Something Try

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Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Adapt Another Anyone Couples Hopefully Household Keep Learn Living Many Peace Positive Skill Takes Ways Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 7th, 1948

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