Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackermanis an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 October 1948
CountryUnited States of America
nature fun joy
Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
knees wonder ricochet
Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.
garden thinking mind
[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.
play brain way
American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
details fans interest
I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.
healing elements tables
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
color feelings brain
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.
attention
We are defined by how we place our attention.
life beautiful country
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
compassion hatred soul
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
inspirational life motivational
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.
senses understand
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,
men giving littles
Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.