Julie

“We often respond to today's world with yesterday's adaptations. (quoting Dan Fesster)”
― annie murphy paul

“For many centuries people have believed that there is continuity between the individual in utero and the individual in the world; now there is solid evidence that this ancient belief is correct, albeit in a far more complex and nuanced way than our ancestors ever imagined.
But science can't tell us everything we need to know about this new perspective; there's always a gap where the hard evidence of the laboratory meets the soft flesh of our bodies.”
― Annie Murphy Paul, Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives

“She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“Lawns are a form of television”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education