As the director of the Tree Foundation (https://treefoundation.org/), author of many books about trees including “The Arbonaut” (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250849182/thearbornaut/) and “Tree Day” (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo253702343.html), Meg found it very hard to choose which type of tree to hug! Ultimately, she had to choose a banyan (Ficus or fig) tree because this species is the first essay in her new book, Tree Day, and also the inspiration for her chapter in The Arbornaut about advising women in science to … “be like a fig tree!”