Diane Ackerman

It began in mystery

Diane Ackerman | May 2022 (Vol. XXXV, No. 5)
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
~ Diane Ackerman in A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENSES

School Prayer

Diane Ackerman | February 2018 (Vol. XXXI, No. 2)

In the name of daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,

I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery
as a messenger of wonder
as an architect of peace.

~ from "School Prayer" by Diane Ackerman

School Prayer

Diane Ackerman | September 2017 (Vol. XXX, No. 8)
In the name of daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,

I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.
~ from "School Prayer" by Diane Ackerman

A way of beholding

Diane Ackerman | July/August 2012 (Vol. XXV, No. 7)

There is a way of beholding which is a form or prayer.

~ from ALCHEMY OF MIND by Diane Ackerman
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