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• Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

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  Passion, Fighting, Love Is

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.19, Vintage

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• Los seres nocturnos viven fuera del tiempo "normal" y, por tanto, sugieren vivir fuera del ámbito del bien y del mal, ya que tenemos sentimientos moralistas sobre el tiempo. Al ser chovinistas con respecto a nuestra necesidad de despertarnos de día y dormir de noche, asociamos a los habitantes de la noche con gente que no hace nada bueno en un momento en el que nos llevan ventaja y desafían a la naturaleza, desafiando sus ritmos circadianos.

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  Sueño, Noche, Gente

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Children, Heaven, Age

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

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• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

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  Country, Dream, Clothes

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• Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

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  Life, Dream, Crazy

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Como no podemos escapar a nuestra antigua ansia de vivir cerca de la naturaleza, rodeamos la casa de césped y jardines, instalamos ventanales, adoptamos mascotas y helechos de Boston, y perfumamos todo lo que toca nuestras vidas.

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  Garden, Boston, House

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

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  Cups, Authenticity, Drink

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.91, Vintage

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• Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

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  Travel, Adventure

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• There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.

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  Long, Waiting, Preparation

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.33, Vintage

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

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  Hate, Age, Possibility

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

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• I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory

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  Memories, Radio, Faces

  Diane Ackerman (2017). “The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.291, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

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  Brain, Essentials, Attention

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.239, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.

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  Doors, Creative, Routine

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• Estamos perdiendo biodiversidad en todo el mundo a un ritmo alarmante, y necesitamos una cornucopia de plantas y animales diferentes, por la salud del planeta y la nuestra propia.

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  Animal, Different, Needs

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.92, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

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  Reality, Self, Mindfulness

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• Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.

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  People, Culture, Lost

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.52, Vintage

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• Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.

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  Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

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• I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

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  Believe, Brain, Mirages

  Diane Ackerman (2012). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

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  Inspirational, Couple, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

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  Loneliness, Differences, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.259, Vintage

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• We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

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  Hero, Thinking, Compassion

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• For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

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  Si

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• El gran asunto, el asunto de amor con la vida, es vivir tan diversamente como sea posible, acicalar la curiosidad de uno como un pura sangre de alto espíritu, subir a bordo y galopar sobre las espesas colinas bañadas por el sol todos los días.

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  Curiosity, Life Is, Hills

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage

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• The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

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  Sweet, Unrest, Logic

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems”, p.47, Vintage

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• What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.

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  Morning, Dawn, Bones

  "The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death". Book edited by David Shields & Bradford Morrow, 2011.

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