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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

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I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

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Life
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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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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Nature

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. – Albert Camus

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Nature

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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Nature

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. – Umberto Eco

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Nature

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We are equally glad and surprised at Winstons return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure. – Shane Leslie

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Dont learn safety rules simply by accident – Source Unknown

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Rules

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell

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Civilization

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. – Henri Amiel

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