Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
Diane AckermanThere was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
Diane AckermanHome is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
Diane AckermanIf we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.
Diane Ackerman