One can read Ackerman for the pure pleasure of encountering her felicitous writing. She finds it “eye-poppingly wonderful…to live on a planet in space, and to be alive with intelligence…to remember how lucky and fleeting it is just being alive.”ĭawn Light draws on the Bible, ancient myths, science and poetry in a joyful celebration of the animal and plant kingdoms. In this latest gem she invites us to turn off our cellphones and open our ears, eyes and hearts to the beauty that surrounds us. Perhaps best known for her 1990 book, A Natural History of the Senses, Ackerman has long been a prolific observer of the myriad wonders of nature. Her childlike enthusiasm leaps off the pages of this poetic tribute to hummingbirds, whooping cranes, squirrels, flowers, seasons and, yes, the coming of dawn. One cannot help but smile at Diane Ackerman’s contagious exuberance for the natural world.
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