Diane Ackerman at the 2007 Texas Book Festival. Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist. Read full biography of Diane Ackerman →
When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see... →
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds... →
The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that... →
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
We live on the leash of our senses.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform... →
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a... →
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially... →
Diane Ackerman at the 2007 Texas Book Festival. Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist.