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“ The faint pink coating the treetops promised rippling buds, a sure sign of spring hastening in, right on schedule, and the animal world getting ready for its fiesta of courting and mating, dueling and dancing, suckling and grubbing, costume-making and shedding-in short, the fuzzy, fizzy hoopla of life's ramshackle return. ”

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I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final years my mother often lamented that there was no one alive who had known her as a girl and I was starting to understand how spooked she'd felt. I wasn't sure I could take any more abandonments. One succumbs so easily to mind spasms, worry spasms. [p. 95]

~ Diane Ackerman

How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?

~ Diane Ackerman

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

~ Diane Ackerman

Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again!

~ Diane Ackerman