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.

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

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

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.

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

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!

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

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.

I grew up in a small town.

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

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

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

We have to be very careful about acknowledging that the Internet is very good at combatting isolation, but it's not very good at delivering justice.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I always knew how privileged I was to think for a living.

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.

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

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.

One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you have a core group of people. Not just a core group like your homies or your buddies, but a group of people that has a good influence on you, who you respect and admire, and you know that if they're on your side, you're doing something right.

I take everything with a grain of salt.

My confidence comes from the daily grind - training my butt off day in and day out.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.

I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.

I have an attitude. It's what I do. I'm edgy. I have an attitude.

I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself - I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere.

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all the teams in America that have folded, and the leagues.

I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I'm just really bad at Facebook.