Quotes by Diane Ackerman

• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
• Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
• Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
• Success produces success, just as money produces money.
• A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
• Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
• I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
• We live on the leash of our senses.
• Embrace the messiness of life, for within chaos often lies the most beautiful symphony.
• Embrace the chaos, it's where the unexpected beauty resides.
• Embrace the messiness of life, for in chaos, there is always beauty waiting to be discovered.
• Life's journey is about embracing the chaos, finding beauty in imperfections, and blooming where you are planted.
• Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed