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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/these-people-showed-a-marked-increase-in-connections-between-parts-of/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

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## More by Florence Williams

> [“Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/human-milk-is-like-ice-cream-penicillin-and-the-drug-ecstasy-all/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

> [“The idea of solvitur ambulando (in walking it will be solved) has been around since St. Augustine, but well before that Aristotle thought and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/the-idea-of-solvitur-ambulando-in-walking-it-will-be-solved-has-been/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

> [“Muir wrote of time not in the wilderness: “I am degenerating into a machine for making money.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/muir-wrote-of-time-not-in-the-wilderness-i-am-degenerating-into-a/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

> [“The Japanese hinoki cypress was a favorite for its fast growth and uncanny ability to ward off pests.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/the-japanese-hinoki-cypress-was-a-favorite-for-its-fast-growth-and/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

> [“Primates who evolved in places seething with venomous snakes have better vision than primates who didn’t evolve in those places. But”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/primates-who-evolved-in-places-seething-with-venomous-snakes-have/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

> [“Beginning in the early 1980s, Stephen and Rachel Kaplan at the University of Michigan noticed that psychological distress was often related to mental fatigue.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/beginning-in-the-early-1980s-stephen-and-rachel-kaplan-at-the/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

> [“If to have breasts is to be human, then to save them is to save ourselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/if-to-have-breasts-is-to-be-human-then-to-save-them-is-to-save/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

> [“Compared to buildings with low amounts of vegetation, those with medium levels experienced 42 percent fewer total crimes, and the contrast between lowest and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/compared-to-buildings-with-low-amounts-of-vegetation-those-with/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

> [“Over recent decades we have come from dwelling in another world in which the living works of nature either predominated or were near at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/over-recent-decades-we-have-come-from-dwelling-in-another-world-in/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-williams/these-people-showed-a-marked-increase-in-connections-between-parts-of/)

[Florence Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-williams/)

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