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Diane Ackerman is an American author known for her rich imagination and unique writing style. Her works cover a wide range of subjects including nature, literature, and art, with her books 'A Year in the Garden' and 'A Natural History of the Senses' particularly beloved by readers.

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“An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.”

Way Humans Moments Conditions Poet Occasions Permit Human Condition Catalyst Haul Nuggets

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.”

Humans Moving Human Beings Chemicals

Book:An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

Source: An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

“One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.”

Humans Animal Wonder Appointments Errands

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.”

People Needs Humans Feelings Night Evil Sleep Normal Rhythm Realms Good And Evil Live By Associates Human Needs Dwellers Defying Circadian Rhythm

Book:Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

Source: Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

“Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.”

Humans Poetry Language Human Nature Memorable Truth About Life

Book:Deep Play

Source: Deep Play

“The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.”

Humans Human Nature Balance Protect Harder Distance Senses Spells Precarious Protect Nature

Author:Diane Ackerman

“We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.”

Thinking Humans Term Natural Human Beings Compassion Enemy Hero Disaster Violent Radical Combat Natural Disaster

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.”

Humans Successful Environment All Time

Book:The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

Source: The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

“I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.”

Giving Trying Humans Mean Littles I Can Passion Understanding Curiosity Being Human Observing Affectionate Muster

Author:Diane Ackerman

“We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.”

Way Humans Light Sky Obsessed Constellations Hurling

Author:Diane Ackerman

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Born: October 7, 1948
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A Natural History of the SensesRelated source material

A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the SensesRelated source material

Deep PlayRelated source material

One Hundred Names for Love: A MemoirRelated source material

An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the BrainRelated source material

The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless WorldsRelated source material

Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and WhalesRelated source material

The Human Age: The World Shaped By UsRelated source material

A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of CrisisRelated source material

Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My GardenRelated source material

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