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Diane Ackerman Quotes about Life

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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.

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
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Diane Ackerman
Life, Beautiful, Country
Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage

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, sun-struck hills every day. Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman
Life, Beautiful, Country

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Diane Ackerman
Life, Knowing Who You Are, Want
"On extended wings". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1985.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman
Life, Dream, Crazy
Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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