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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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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Other Quotes from
Nature
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Nature

Of all natures gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nature

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature. – Charles Eastman

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Nature

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. – James Whistler

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Nature

Random Quotes

I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career. – Mike Hammar

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Retirement

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. – Oscar Wilde

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Art

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. – Walter Bagehot

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Silence

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. – Robert Frost

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Poetry