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Diane Ackerman Quotes

American - Poet | October 7, 1948 -

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.

Nature Spiritual Plants Internet See

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.

Daily Technology Worry Enjoy Digital

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.

Winter Flowers Skiing Grow Enjoy

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.

Cool Weather Warm Someone Fall Jazz

I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb into my bay window. I may not be inspired every day, but on the days I am, I need to be in place to write. If I'm not particularly inspired, I'll revise or do research or correspondence.

Time Best Day I Am Research Climb

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.

Life End My Life Find Want Lived

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

Together Lie Language Emotions Poem

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Success Money Just Produces

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

Love Love Is Everyone Wonderful Just

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

New Evolving Keep Interfere Species

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.

Trust Seeing Living Without Claim

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.

Time People Face Warm Embrace Legs

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