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Diane Ackerman on animal connection

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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems

In A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman revealed herself as a naturalist who writes with the sensuous immediately of a great poet. Now Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist.

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Diane Ackerman
1993
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Diane Ackerman on the Evolutionary and Existential Purpose of Deep Play

“In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time’s continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world’s ordinary miracles.”

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Maria Popova
2016
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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.

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Diane Ackerman
2023
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Diane Ackerman: Building the Mosaic of Emotion and Human Experience

Diane Ackerman, a poet, essayist and naturalist, imparts her passionate love of life and language to Upon Reflection host Marcia Alvar in this 1997 video from University of Washington.

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Diane Ackerman
2014
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The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

In a rare blend of scientific fact and poetic truth, the acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Senses explores the activities of whales, penguins, bats, and crocodilians, plunging headlong into nature and coming up with highly entertaining treasures.

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Diane Ackerman
1992
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Emerald Cities

Some ecologically minded towns have been designing a new breed of wildlife preserve, one that gives recycling a lively twist.

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Diane Ackerman
2011
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Science & Story | Diane Ackerman: “The Human Age”

From diseases and disasters to the miracles wrought by evolution, the environmental forces that shape our lives are the inspiration for countless science writers.

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Diane Ackerman
2015
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

A dazzling, inspiring tour through the ways that humans are working with nature to try to save the planet.

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Diane Ackerman
2023
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The Lonely Polar Bear

We share many of our motives, feelings and instincts with other animals.

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Diane Ackerman
2011
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The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story

A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages.

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Diane Ackerman
2008
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