I wonder if these writers are simply projecting. I go hiking, camping, fishing, skiing, diving - I love nature. Yet I also love living and working in the city,

I wonder if these writers are simply projecting. I go hiking, camping, fishing, skiing, diving - I love nature. Yet I also love living and working in the city, away from all the mud and hard work, in high-rise clean buildings with sterile offices and lots of tech. It doesn't have to be either/or, I can enjoy both and choose when I go for one of the other. I hear people looking way back and saying that it was better. But my grandmother was rising at 4am to feed the farm animals then work the rest of the day in the field. She also had only two surviving siblings out of 14 or 15 in total. Her words to my father and me were always: study and study well because without that life is damn hard and always lacking.