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Diane Ackerman

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

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For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

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