I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as… - Diane Ackerman
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as…
- Diane Ackerman
We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling. - Diane Ackerman
We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink. - Diane Ackerman
The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. - Diane Ackerman
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. - Diane Ackerman
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
We are defined by how we place our attention. - Diane Ackerman
We are defined by how we place our attention.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. - Diane Ackerman
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world r… - Diane Ackerman
There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world r…
Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else. - Diane Ackerman
Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.
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