Diane Ackermanis an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world... (wikipedia)
[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.
American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
We are defined by how we place our attention.
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.
Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.