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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

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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Discovery
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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

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

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Discovery

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. – William M. Evarts

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Discovery

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Discovery

Random Quotes

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. – Francis Picabia

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Inventing, Inventions

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope theyll remember and be kind to someone else. And itll become like a wildfire. – Whoopi Goldberg

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Hope

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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Virtue

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so. – George Whitefield

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