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" During the mid-1990s, I collected thousands of hackberry fruits from trees all across the Midwest. I chemically analyzed each seed in order to formulate an equation relating the hackberry's mineral makeup to the summer temperature under which it grew. "

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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. "

Hope Jahren

Questions

Plants

I Am

" For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months. "

" 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. "

Hope Jahren

Women

Absence

" 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. "

" Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands. "

Hope Jahren

Hands

Women

" I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them. "

" You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank. "

" America may say that it values science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it. "

" A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge. "

" A tree's wood is also its memoir. "

" It's very important to put children in an environment where they can take things apart; where they can break things and then learn to fix them; where they can trust their hands and know their capacity to manipulate objects. "

" My father was a scientist, and I grew up in his laboratory. Maybe I am like him, but he is not like me. "

Hope Jahren

Laboratory

I Am

" I am a scientist. To be specific, I am a woman scientist. This, I have been told and have come to believe, is a good thing. In fact, it is such a good thing that America needs more of us. Everyone seems to be very sure of this. The thing that no one is sure about, however, is how to make it happen. "

" Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly. "

" We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered. "

" In New England, the pin oak thrives, its leaves tipping to a thorny point in a good-natured impression of its evergreen neighbor, the holly bush. "

" When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy. "

" If every seed turned into a plant, we'd be living in a very different world. "

" I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see fewer female faces. And I think the basic reason is the same reason that you don't see a lot of female faces in Congress or on the Supreme Court or on the directing board of Fortune 500 companies. "

" I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job. "

" I love rocks with the unconditional love that you lavish upon a newborn baby. "

" I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything. "

" Regardless of what humans do to the climate, there will still be a rock orbiting the sun. "

" Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics. "

" 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.' "

" I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains. "

" The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it. "

" I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a grant. Now I'm that same person thinking that same way getting grants. That system of external rewards in science has always mystified me. It's fickle. And I also don't think it was constructed with people like me in mind. "

" My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses. "

Hope Jahren

Experiences

Then

" 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! "

Hope Jahren

Life

Know