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" I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home. "

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" The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn's skin. "

" Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My father's schooling during the 1930s was heavy with memorization; eight decades later, he is reaping the benefits. "

" 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. "

" Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The deadnettle is the Punxsutawney Phil of the plant world: short of stature but stout of heart. At the first hint of winter's wane, its stem rises from the ground, and a green, grasping hand of sepals unclenches to divulge two silky-white petals, one of which unfurls straight up toward the sky. "

" My lab is the place where I put my brain out on my fingers. "

" I have learned that nothing gets readers so fired up as saying something everyone knows is true. "

" Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet. "

" 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. "

" I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" All I have ever wanted is one more day in the lab with the people I care about. And every day that I get that, I am grateful. "

" 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. "

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

" I grew up in a time when there were very few women in the physical sciences. And people started to ask me, 'How did you decide to become a scientist?' And I couldn't really answer. I always knew I'd grow up to have a lab because my dad had one. "

" I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think there are fundamental mechanisms that keep men and women from achieving the same level of power and access and privilege in society. "