Nalini Nadkarni Quotes


If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.


Citations

Cooper, Arnie. "Branching Out: Nalini Nadkarni on Our Intimate Connection with Trees." The Sun, no. 438, June 2012.

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Nalini Nadkarni
Nalini Nadkarni
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  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Forest Ecologist

Nalini Nadkarni (born 1954 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American ecologist who pioneered the study of Costa Rican rain forest canopies. Using mountain climbing equipment to make her ascent, Nadkarni first took an inventory of the canopy in 1981, followed by two more inventories in 1984.