Diane Ackerman World Quotations

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us.

Our skin is what stands between us and the world.

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.