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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

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

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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

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World. – Jean Baudrillard

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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

Random Quotes

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond. – Mae West

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Jewelry

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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History

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people! – John Glover

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teacher

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. – Joshua Lederberg

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Science