The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions. ✨ Diane Acker…

Diane Ackerman
104 citations
The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2011). A Natural History of the Senses, p.268, Vintage
Humanity
33

More Author Quotes

Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2011). A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A … ▶
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. ✨ The growing, feeling house of the future by Diane Ackerman … ▶
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think ab … ▶
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, an … ▶
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what … ▶

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2011). A Natural History of the Senses, p.268, Vintage

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes