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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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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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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. – Diane Ackerman

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Love
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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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Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
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The clouds, — the only birds that never sleep. – Victor Hugo

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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

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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Sky & Clouds

A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. – Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

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Sky & Clouds

Random Quotes

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. – Buckminster Fuller

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Confidence

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor

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But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep. – Peabo Bryson

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Attitude

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. – Robert Hall

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Friendship