3 Quotes by Florence Williams

We all want our starter castles on the corner of Prospect and Refuge.

Technology is always a double-edged sword, it enabled progress but it changed who they were. . .The evolution of technology is who we are, the stepping stone, with inventions embodying new ways of thinking and being from which we can't go back" ' [David Strayer]

To the Finnish, being outdoors in nature isn't about paying homage to nature or to ourselves, the way it tends to be for Americans. We fetishize are life lists, catalog peaks bagged and capture pristine scenes of grand wilderness It is largely an individual experience. For the Finnish, though, nature is about expressing a close-knit identity. Nature is where they can exult in their nationalistic obsessions of berry-picking, mushrooming, fishing, lake swimming and Nordic skiing.