Diane Ackerman
American author, poet, and naturalist most famous for her work A Natural History of the Senses.
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.
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