Diane Ackerman Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned."
Emily Dickinson &bull Luck

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"
Henri Bergson &bull Change

"Quality will be prized as a precious possession."
Unknown Source &bull Quality

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
Samuel Johnson &bull Sea

"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow &bull Art

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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.