Quotes by Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman

A flower’s fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.

Flower

Sex

Spring

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

Lying

Records

Together

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Adult bats don’t weigh much. They’re mainly fur and appetite.

Adults

Bats

Fur

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Adventure is not something you travel to find. It’s something you take with you, or you’re not going to find it when you arrive.

Adventure

Travel

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American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.

Brain

Play

Way

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And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can’t really share the enormity of our lives.

Our Lives

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Soul

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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Expression

Growing Up

Mirrors

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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

Children

Important Relationships

Mirrors

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Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

Garden

Journey

Struggle

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Couple

Jigsaw Puzzles

Touching

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