Diane Ackerman Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Famous Quotes by Diane Ackerman
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“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
Life Quotes
Source: quoted in "Newsweek"
“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”
Mystery Quotes
“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
Melancholy Quotes
“Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.”
Nature Quotes
“Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Success produces success, just as money produces money”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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