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

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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
category

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sky & Clouds

The stars, which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields of heaven. – Philip James Bailey

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Sky & Clouds

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. – Willa Sibert Cather

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Sky & Clouds

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. – Henry David Thoreau

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Sky & Clouds

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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Hell

Children make you want to start life over. – Muhammad Ali

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Children

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But mans intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. – Morarji Desai

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Intelligence

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. – Alexander Pope

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Poetry