Diane Ackerman Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton &bull Art

"The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy."
Ralph Waldo Emerson &bull Beauty

"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."
Thomas Carlyle &bull Laughter

"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently."
Chinese Proverb &bull Family

"A good man dies when a boy goes wrong."
Unknown Source &bull Death

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(1948-?) American poet, writer and naturalist.

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.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

We live on the leash of our senses.

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.