Events and Appearances by Diane Ackerman

DIANE ON THE SELF

“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.”
DIANE ON LIFE

"The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible,to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day....It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."
DIANE ON NATURE

"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 recedes."
DIANE ON WONDER

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

DIANE ON THE SELF