Quotes by "Diane Ackerman"
When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
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.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
We live on the leash of our senses.
