“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 processing sensory and motor information. It’s hard to know what to really make of this, and… — 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
“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
“Muir wrote of time not in the wilderness: “I am degenerating into a machine for making money.” — Florence Williams Copy Share
“The Japanese hinoki cypress was a favorite for its fast growth and uncanny ability to ward off pests.” — Florence Williams Copy Share
“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
“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
“If to have breasts is to be human, then to save them is to save ourselves.” — Florence Williams Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
