We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

- Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

- 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

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

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

- Diane Ackerman

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

- Diane Ackerman

We are defined by how we place our attention.

- 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.

- 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.

- Diane Ackerman