193 Quotes by Hope Jahren

My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books.

I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know things that I need to know.

My true potential had more to do with my willingness to struggle than with my past and present circumstances.

For trees that live in the snow, winter is a journey. Plants do not travel through space as we do; as a rule they do not move from place to place. Instead they travel through time, enduring one event after the other, and in this sense, winter is a particularly long trip. Trees follow the standard advice given for any extended travel within a rustic setting: pack carefully.

Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Remember that you are your tree's only friend in a hostile world.

In a wide, wide world, full of unimaginable numbers of people, I was—in addition to being small and insufficient—special.

I wonder who else in the world was having such an exquisite dawn.

Nothing could alter the overwhelming sweetness of briefly holding a small secret that the universe had earmarked just for me.

All measures of conservation, as well as all technologies meant to wean us from fossil fuels, are worth pursuing in the same way that doing something is always more than doing nothing.