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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

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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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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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The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. – Edward Abbey

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. – Henry Van Dyke

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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. – Henry David Thoreau

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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. – Rudyard Kipling

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Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking? – Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Im proud of the U.S.A. Weve done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor. – Shaun White

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What is truth? Truth doesnt really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. – Tracey Emin

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