She encouraged the planting of indigenous plants such as poppies and lupins around the Stanford University campus, arguing that besides being beautiful, such plants would not need to be watered—an important consideration on a campus located in the San Francisco Bay Area, which experiences frequent droughts.
Propuxo que se plantasen plantas indíxenas como mapoulas e lupinos no campus da Universidade de Stanford, argumentando que ademais de ser bonitas non necesitarían de rega—una consideración importante para un campus localizado na Bahía de San Francisco, que ten secas frecuentes.