1930s Quote by Hope Jahren

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

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A tree's wood is also its memoir.

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Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning.

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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…

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

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The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass.

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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…

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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…

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

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Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed…

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

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