Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work A Natural History of the Senses. Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science. She has taught at various universities, including Columbia and Cornell, and her essays regularly appear in distinguished popular and literary journals.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
I 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 Ackerman
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
— Diane Ackerman
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
— Diane Ackerman
We live on the leash of our senses.
— Diane Ackerman
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
— Diane Ackerman
like a global terrarium, cutthroat, tart and self-absorbed.
— Diane Ackerman