Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman

07-Oct-1948

United States

Author

Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman received an MFA and a PhD from Cornell University. She is best known for both her poems and her untrue writing. Her protein books include The Age Age: The World Shaped By Us (2014), New York Times marketer and PEN Award winner Henry David Thoreau; memoir One Hundred Names for Love (2011), a Pulitzer Prize winner and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Zookeeper Wife (2007), winner of the Orion Book Award; and best-selling sales of The Natural History of the Sense (1990). Ackerman has also written many children's books and included Norton's Book of Love (1998) with Jeanne Mackin.

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"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."

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"Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time."

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

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"Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world."

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"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."

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

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"Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people."

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"Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite"

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"There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore."

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