Quotes by : Diane Ackerman

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we....

Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Higher....

I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed....

Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.

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

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

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

Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin....

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure....