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Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

Diane Ackerman
Nature, Fun, Joy
Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.20, Vintage

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Diane Ackerman
Nature, Self, Irises
Diane Ackerman (2002). “Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden”, G K Hall & Company

Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.

Diane Ackerman
Nature, Giving, Mercy
Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.13, Vintage

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

Diane Ackerman
Summer, Nature, Memories
"A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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