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" A tree's wood is also its memoir. "
Hope Jahren
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" I am not the only scientist to be struck by the power and meaning of Lamium album in bloom. "
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" I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it. "
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" I'm interested in how the bare bones of the planet, things that aren't alive, are transformed into things that are alive. "
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" One cannot rule out a blizzard in Minnesota after Labor Day, and so when I travel for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall, I am careful to fly into Des Moines instead of Minneapolis and then drive the 200 miles north to my hometown. "
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" Your bones are not just made of the last meal you had, but the meals that you've had across many years. By looking at the composition of those teeth, researchers can say that something was a large component of the diet. This tells us a lot about how hominins lived and what they ate. "
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" I always knew how privileged I was to think for a living. "
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" In our tiny town, my father wasn't a scientist - he was the scientist, and being a scientist wasn't his job: it was his identity. "
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" I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves. "
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" I was a promising graduate student. I landed a position as a professor before I even started to write my dissertation. While I prepared to start my new job, I decided that I would begin by studying the brine that bleeds sideways within the rocks that underlie the inner Aegean region of Turkey. "
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" There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field - but it does not. "
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" In my Scandinavian-American family, we were conditioned never to sit, at least not comfortably. I was endlessly going back to work. We longed for the fleeting respite of being useful and regarded sleep as a reward for exhaustion, always to be deferred until after the sun goes down. "
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" If every seed turned into a plant, we'd be living in a very different world. "
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" I grew up in a small town. "
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" The wood of any tree growing anywhere records fairly faithfully the oxygen and hydrogen chemistry of the water the plant has access to through precipitation. "
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" Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won't take long. She'll look you in the eye and say one word: 'Money.' "
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" When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy. "
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" I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living. "
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" My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't know that many! "
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" My father was a scientist, and I grew up in his laboratory. Maybe I am like him, but he is not like me. "
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" A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits. "
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" You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you're lucky. Wild strawberries can't be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun. "
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" My earliest memories are being in the lab, and the way the cement felt and the way it smelled, and the way the countertops looked and it just being this wonderful, warm, happy place where it was just full of toys. "
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" The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent - despite more than 20 years of programs intended to encourage the participation of girls and women. "
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" I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody else. I thought everybody was that way when I was growing up, and then I left to go to college, and I realised that the world is full of strangers. "
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" I am a scientist who studies plants. I like plants. I think about plants almost every hour of the day, and several hours of the night as well. "
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" We must feed, shelter, and nurture one another as our first priority, and to do so, we must avail ourselves of our best technologies, which have always included some type of genetic modification. "
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" A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge. "
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" The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you can use that as a kind of compass, and you can be secure in the fact that you're working for the right reason, and you're going in the right direction. "
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" One thing that was very important to me was that I felt comfortable in the lab from being very, very small. I knew that that's where I belonged, and I could fix things and move things. And no matter how many classrooms I went into where I was the only girl in the physics class or whatever, I never questioned the fact that I didn't belong there. "
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