352 Quotes by Diane Ackerman

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn’t room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

Thank you, Merciful Lord, for having arranged to provide flowers with fragrance, glow worms with their glow, and to make the stars in the sky sparkle.

Writer’s block is a luxury most people with deadlines don’t have.

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else’s heart.

Each photograph is a magic lamp rubbed by the mind.

The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother’s womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.

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.

We’re losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet’s health and our own.

How do you retain a spirit of affection and humor in a crazed, homicidal, unpredictable society?