Quote by Diane Ackerman
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just li

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

Other quotes by Diane Ackerman

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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Nature
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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 began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. – Diane Ackerman

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Discovery
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Life
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Life

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. – Horace Walpole

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Life

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life. – Muhammad Ali

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Life

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. – Henry David Thoreau

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Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally. – Christina Aguilera

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We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there. – Wilson Greatbatch

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Information can bring you choices and choices bring power – educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance. – Joy Page

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