Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
Diane AckermanLook in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
Diane AckermanWe humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
Diane AckermanWe can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
Diane Ackerman