Quotes by : Diane Ackerman

One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot....

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed....

Much more. We're joined at the heart.""Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky.""Too much....

When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors....

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We....

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts....

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy....

Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stalks....

We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth....

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m strickenby the ricochet wonder of it all: the plaineverythingness....