“Over recent decades we have come from dwelling in another world in which the living works of nature either predominated or were near at hand, to dwelling in an environment dominated by a technology which is wondrously powerful and yet… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.” — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“The idea of solvitur ambulando (in walking it will be solved) has been around since St. Augustine, but well before that Aristotle thought and… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“Muir wrote of time not in the wilderness: “I am degenerating into a machine for making money.” — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“The Japanese hinoki cypress was a favorite for its fast growth and uncanny ability to ward off pests.” — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“Primates who evolved in places seething with venomous snakes have better vision than primates who didn’t evolve in those places. But” — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“Beginning in the early 1980s, Stephen and Rachel Kaplan at the University of Michigan noticed that psychological distress was often related to mental fatigue.… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“If to have breasts is to be human, then to save them is to save ourselves.” — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“Compared to buildings with low amounts of vegetation, those with medium levels experienced 42 percent fewer total crimes, and the contrast between lowest and… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“Over recent decades we have come from dwelling in another world in which the living works of nature either predominated or were near at… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain associated with… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
