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A tree's wood is also its memoir.

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No matter how much funding I get, I'm always thinking, 'This is temporary. This is fragile. It could all end tomorrow, and how am I going to make today worth it? If this is my last day in the lab, what can I do so that I can walk out of here saying, 'That was a good day?''

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

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

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A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: September 27th, 1969

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