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Quote by Diane Ackerman
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpecte

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

Other quotes by Diane Ackerman

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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Sky & Clouds
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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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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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Diane Ackerman
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. – Robert Shea

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Nature

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. – Henry David Thoreau

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Nature

Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. – Charles Baudelaire

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Nature

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and childrens faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. – Sara Teasdale

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Nature

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. – Samuel Johnson

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Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave it is not in his nature. – Laurence Sterne

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Nature

An American, a Negro… two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but its there if you look deep. – Taraji P. Henson

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sad