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

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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Discovery
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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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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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Other Quotes from
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

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. – Author unknown, commonly attributed to Martin Luther

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Sky & Clouds

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII

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Sky & Clouds

Truly, were I every evening to depict sunrise, and every morning to see it, still I should cry, like the children, Once more, once more! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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Sky & Clouds

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What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on? – George Carlin

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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. – John Locke

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Beauty draws us with a single hair. – Alexander Pope

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Journalism — a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. – Lord Northcliffe

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