Diane Ackerman quotes
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...
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
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 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.
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
We live on the leash of our senses.