Diane Ackerman quote: Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m strickenby the ricochet wonder of it all: the plaineverythingness of everything, in cahootswith the ...

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m strickenby the ricochet wonder of it all: the plaineverythingness of everything, in cahootswith the everythingness of everything else.- From Diffraction (for Carl Sagan)

~ Diane Ackerman ~

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Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m strickenby the ricochet wonder of it all: the plaineverything...

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