Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.
Diane AckermanI don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane AckermanLook at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world.
Diane AckermanI don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.
Diane AckermanIt began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane AckermanThe daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
Diane AckermanLibraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
Diane AckermanIn our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.
Diane AckermanAlligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.
Diane AckermanTags: nature
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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