Katherine Olivia Sessions grew up in the woods of Northern California. She gathered leaves from oaks and elms. She collected needles from pines and redwoods. And she braided them together with flowers to make necklaces and bracelets.
It was the 1860s, and girls from Kate’s side of town weren’t supposed to get their hands dirty.
But Kate did.
Kate listened well in school. She learned how to write and count. She remembered the poems and stories she read. But best of all, she liked studying wind and rain, muscles and bones, plants and trees. Especially trees.
Most girls were discouraged from studying science.
But not Kate.
Joy of Reading 
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