Autobiography oliver sacks quotes on life

Oliver W. Sacks (9 July1933 - 30 August2015) was a British-born neurologist and author living in New York City.

Quotes

• My own first love was biology.

  I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity—of the wonder of innumerable forms of life—has always thrilled me beyond anything else.

  • Personal correspondence, quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, "Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!", Dinosaur in a Haystack (Harmony, 1995), p.

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• The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe. ... [The forest] has to do with the ancient, the aboriginal, the beginning of all things.

  The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force u