Sentences are compact and vibrant sending you into a sort of word thrall. She has uncommon powers of description, so detailed and precise, with never an excess of verbiage where it is not required. The author experiences dawn as a powerful borderland that accommodates both dreaminess and awareness. Diane Ackerman's creative instincts captivate in this compelling journey of poetic musings. Humans might luxuriate in the idea of being 'in' nature, Ackerman points out, but we often forget that we are nature-for 'no facet of nature is as unlikely as we, the tiny bipeds with the giant dreams.' Joining science's devotion to detail with religion's appreciation of the sublime, Dawn Light is an impassioned celebration of the miracles of evolution-especially human consciousness of our numbered days on a turning earth. 28, 2009 Ackerman ( An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain, 2004, etc.) luxuriates in the break of day. What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest. Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day. In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawndrawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping. As a patient and learned observer of animal and human physiology and behavior, she introduces us to varieties of bird music and other signs of avian intelligence, while she herself 'migrates' from winter in Florida to spring, summer, and fall in upstate New York. See all books authored by Diane Ackerman, including The Zookeepers Wife: A War Story, and A Natural History of the Senses, and more on. In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn-drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping. A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.

Dawn Light by Diane Ackerman