Quote by Diane Ackerman
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage

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

Other quotes by Diane Ackerman

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman

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Senses
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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. – Diane Ackerman

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Sky & Clouds
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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

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Nature
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Other Quotes from
Discovery
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon

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Discovery

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. – Jean Baudrillard

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Discovery

Its not only the most difficult thing to know ones self, but the most inconvenient. – Josh Billings

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Discovery

There comes a time in the seekers life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved. – Sri Chinmoy

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Discovery

Random Quotes

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. – George Bernard Shaw

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Men

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. – Prescott Bush

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Courage

Theres no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. – Morgan Freeman

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Learning

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces. – Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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Technology