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

Other quotes by Diane Ackerman

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

Category:
Life
Read Quote

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. – Diane Ackerman

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

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

Category:
Nature
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Senses
category

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. – William Osler

Category:
Senses

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

Category:
Senses

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

Category:
Senses

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. – Helen Keller

Category:
Senses

Random Quotes

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education. – John Dickey

Category:
Education

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the worlds peace and to the welfare of mankind. – Henry Cabot Lodge

Category:
alone

Make yourself necessary to somebody. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Necessity

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man. – Frank Carson

Category:
funny