I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.