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The Thisness of What Is

Diane Ackerman on the ancient tradition of meditation and mysticism that sustained two heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Diane Ackerman
2008
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Interview with Diane Ackerman: The Gorgeous Fever

Poet, essayist and naturalist Diane Ackerman is the author of twenty books about nature and human nature.

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Mirka Knaster, Barbara Gates
2004
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Diane Ackerman on the Evolutionary and Existential Purpose of Deep Play

“In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time’s continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world’s ordinary miracles.”

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Maria Popova
2016
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Fruit Flies and Love

So, is the human dinner date really just courtship feeding after all, a custom we share with fruit flies, robins and chimpanzees? Yes. But what’s the harm in that?

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Diane Ackerman
2012
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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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Emerald Cities

Some ecologically minded towns have been designing a new breed of wildlife preserve, one that gives recycling a lively twist.

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Diane Ackerman
2011
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Natural Wonder

It’s healing and comfort, heritage and home. Best-selling author Diane Ackerman defines nature for a wonderful world in the future.

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Diane Ackerman
2012
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Handmade Landscapes

We manufacture new vistas and move so comfortably among them that quite often we confuse them with natural habitats.

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Diane Ackerman
2014
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The Lonely Polar Bear

We share many of our motives, feelings and instincts with other animals.

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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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