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Quote by Diane Ackerman
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of t

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

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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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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Sky & Clouds
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When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. – Julia Gregson

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Sky & Clouds

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky…. – Joseph Conrad

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Sky & Clouds

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. – Anton Chekhov

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Sky & Clouds

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull? – Aristophanes

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Sky & Clouds

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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – Thomas Merton

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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. – Henry Fielding

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I eat really healthy, and if Im tired, I take a nap. – Casper Van Dien

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In our post-9/11 world, our Nations military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. – Mike Rogers

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