Best quotes by Diane Ackerman on Nature

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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
  • Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
    - Diane Ackerman
  • Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
    - Diane Ackerman
  • The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.
    - Diane Ackerman
  • Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.
    - Diane Ackerman
  • We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.
    - Diane Ackerman
  • The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.
    - Diane Ackerman
  • Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next.
    - Diane Ackerman
  • We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.
    - Diane Ackerman