We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to unders…

Diane Ackerman
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We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
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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.
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2011). A Natural History of the Senses, p.80, Vintage
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We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

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