Quote by Diane Ackerman
There is no way in which to understand the world without first det

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

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The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense. – Source Unknown

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. – Denis Diderot

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Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. – Mervyn Peake

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I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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