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I like handling newborn animal...

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Not much is known about alliga...

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

One of the things I like best ...

One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.

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Adult bats don't weigh much. T...

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

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Nothing reveals more about the...

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts ...

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Who would drink from a cup whe...

Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

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The brain is only three pounds...

The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.

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Choice is a signature of our s...

Choice is a signature of our species.

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For the longest time I didn't ...

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

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Culture is what people invent ...

Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.

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Variety is the pledge that mat...

Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

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Look in the mirror. The face t...

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey. ... Prey, on the other hand, have eyes at the sides of their heads, because what they really need is peripheral vision, so they can tell when something is sneaking up behind them. Something like us.

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Flight is nothing but an attit...

Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.

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[On gardens:] I think they're ...

[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.

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habit, a particularly insidiou...

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

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History is an agreed-upon fict...

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

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Home is where the heart is, we...

Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.

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Horses have made civilization ...

Horses have made civilization possible.

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If we mammals don't get someth...

If 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.

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When you consider something li...

When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....