Diane Ackerman Quotes About Age

• A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sex, Spring, Flower

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.13, Vintage

• Como especie, de alguna manera hemos sobrevivido a grandes y pequeñas glaciaciones, cuellos de botella genéticos, plagas, guerras mundiales y todo tipo de desastres naturales, pero a veces me pregunto si sobreviviremos a nuestro propio ingenio.

  Diane Ackerman

  War, Ice, Age

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.136, W. W. Norton & Company

• A falta de tocar y ser tocados, las personas de todas las edades pueden enfermar y llegar a estar hambrientas de tacto. El tacto parece ser tan esencial como la luz del sol.

  Diane Ackerman

  People, Touching, Age

• I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.

  Diane Ackerman

  Hate, Age, Possibility

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.116, Vintage

• If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

  Diane Ackerman

  Children, Heaven, Age

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.20, Vintage

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