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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

I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

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Life
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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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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. – Diane Ackerman

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Poetry
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Other Quotes from
Discovery
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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

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. – Alexander Graham Bell

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Discovery

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. – Bhagavad Gita

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Discovery

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Discovery

Random Quotes

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when Im not working Im cool with the Teletubbies. – Clive Owen

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cool

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. – Aesop

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Excuses

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. – Ambrose Bierce

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Knowledge

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true – John Fowles

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Liberalism