Diane Ackerman
What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.Collection: Morning
The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.Collection: Sweet
Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.Collection: Reality
For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.Collection: Ifs
Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.Collection: Home
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.Collection: Believe
Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.Collection: People
So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.Collection: Loneliness
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.Collection: Curiosity
Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.Collection: Successful
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.Collection: Inspirational
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.Collection: Civilization
Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn’t fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.Collection: Fun