Diane Ackerman Quotes

As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.

Diane Ackerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1948

Topics

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I married the reigning mustache champion.

Megan Mullally

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I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Robert Osborne

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You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.

Robert Gottlieb

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It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.

Sophie Marceau

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I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

Subhash Chandra

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A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

Travie McCoy

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My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Douglas Preston

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After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.

Clive Cussler

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My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

Antonia Fraser

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We all have this idea of Ram being a patient person besides being a great archer, a horse-rider, and above all, a compassionate king. There is more to him than that.

Ashish Sharma

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At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

Thomas Lynch

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