Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.
--Diane Ackerman
Choice is a signature of our species.
--Diane Ackerman
Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
--Diane Ackerman
Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.
--Diane Ackerman
Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
--Diane Ackerman
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.
--Diane Ackerman
I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
--Diane Ackerman
If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence.
--Diane Ackerman
Life goes on, having nowhere else to go.
--Diane Ackerman
Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
--Diane Ackerman
Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.
--Diane Ackerman
Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
--Diane Ackerman
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
--Diane Ackerman
The biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
--Diane Ackerman
The Planets are nine dice rolling in the dark.
--Diane Ackerman
There are truths that can only be learned when you're dancing in chains.
--Diane Ackerman
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
--Diane Ackerman
We are defined by how we place our attention.
--Diane Ackerman
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
--Diane Ackerman
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