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"The World Is Too Much With Us"

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This sonnet by William Wordsworth, published in 1807, laments the weakening connection between humans and nature.

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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems

In A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman revealed herself as a naturalist who writes with the sensuous immediately of a great poet. Now Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist.

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Diane Ackerman
1993
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As We Seek Nature, We Wall It Out

The myth of our sprawly, paved-over cities and towns is that we’ve driven native animals out and stolen their habitat. Not entirely true.

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Diane Ackerman
2011
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To Be an Earth Ecstatic: Poet Diane Ackerman on the Spirituality of Wonder Without Religion

Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things.

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Maria Popova
2020
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I Praise My Destroyer: Poems

In her first new book of poetry since Jaguar of Sweet Laughter, poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman combines her deep understanding of the world with her immense passion for language to craft richly sensual poems that “honor all life/wherever and in whatever form/it may deal.

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Diane Ackerman
2025
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

In the mode of her bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman celebrates the sensory pleasures of her garden through the seasons.

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Diane Ackerman
2025
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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.

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Diane Ackerman
2025
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Connection with Nature