193 Quotes by Hope Jahren

I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody else. I thought everybody was that way when I was growing up, and then I left to go to college, and I realised that the world is full of strangers.

I'm a scientist - a geobiologist who's been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I wanted, needed, to tell people - and not just other scientists - about my life in science.

I always knew how privileged I was to think for a living.

The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn's skin.

All I have ever wanted is one more day in the lab with the people I care about. And every day that I get that, I am grateful.

My lab is the place where I put my brain out on my fingers.

Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning.

Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft.

I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a grant. Now I'm that same person thinking that same way getting grants. That system of external rewards in science has always mystified me. It's fickle. And I also don't think it was constructed with people like me in mind.