193 Quotes by Hope Jahren

When you grow up around people who don’t speak very much, what they do say to you is indelible.

Instead, I would take a long, lonely journey toward adulthood with the dogged faith of the pioneer who has realized that there is no promised land but still holds out hope that the destination will be someplace better than here. On.

Researchers generally love their calling to excess, and delight in nothing better than teaching others to love it also; as with all creatures driven by love, we can’t help but breed.

What if you don’t get a grant? You can’t exactly pay me less than you do now, in case you haven’t run the numbers lately. What if you get fired? We’ve got the goddamn keys to the place; I’ll go make copies tomorrow. I’ve developed a nagging suspicion that you don’t have to be employed here to come in and work every day.

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.

The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you can use that as a kind of compass, and you can be secure in the fact that you're working for the right reason, and you're going in the right direction.

Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize activity. It's this constant balancing act that we do.