352 Quotes by Diane Ackerman

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They’re never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

One of the most remarkable things about Antonina was her determination to include play, animals, wonder, curiosity, marvel, and a wide blaze of innocence in a household where all dodged the ambient dangers, horrors, and uncertainties. That takes a special stripe of bravery rarely valued in wartime. While.

It’s not enough to do research from a distance. It’s by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology.

Heschel wrote of his childhood in Warsaw, “there was one thing we did not have to look for and that was exaltation. Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment is unique.

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it’s a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

It’s essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it’s a phantom that will slip away again.

What sort of stewards of the future planet will today’s digital children be?

They spend their whole lives yelling at the world and each other. They yell at their loved ones, they yell at their enemies, they yell at their dinner, they yell at the big bustling world.