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Cover Page: iii Title Page Page: iii Copyright Page: iv Contents Page: iv Dedication Page: v Epigraph Page: vii Prologue Page: 3 Part One: Roots and Leaves Page: 5 Chapter 1 Page: 7 Chapter 2 Page: 27 Chapter 3 Page: 30 Chapter 4 Page: 32 Chapter 5 Page: 52 Chapter 6 Page: 54 Chapter 7 Page: 63 Chapter 8 Page: 66 Chapter 9 Page: 77 Chapter 10 Page: 80 Chapter 11 Page: 90 Part Two: Wood and Knots Page: 93 Chapter 1 Page: 95 Chapter 2 Page: 97 Chapter 3 Page: 104 Chapter 4 Page: 106 Chapter 5 Page: 120 Chapter 6 Page: 126 Chapter 7 Page: 129 Chapter 8 Page: 142 Chapter 9 Page: 144 Chapter 10 Page: 148 Chapter 11 Page: 165 Chapter 12 Page: 168 Part Three: Flowers and Fruit Page: 175 Chapter 1 Page: 177 Chapter 2 Page: 179 Chapter 3 Page: 191 Chapter 4 Page: 194 Chapter 5 Page: 202 Chapter 6 Page: 205 Chapter 7 Page: 210 Chapter 8 Page: 213 Chapter 9 Page: 230 Chapter 10 Page: 232 Chapter 11 Page: 254 Chapter 12 Page: 258 Chapter 13 Page: 268 Chapter 14 Page: 270 Epilogue Page: 279 Acknowledgments Page: 285 Endnote Page: 287 A Note About the Author Page: 291

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. "Does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould’s writings did for paleontology.” —The New York Times In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work “with both the heart and the hands.” She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together. 
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