193 Quotes by Hope Jahren

Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable.

I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see fewer female faces. And I think the basic reason is the same reason that you don't see a lot of female faces in Congress or on the Supreme Court or on the directing board of Fortune 500 companies.

I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.

Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs.

When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge.

The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass.