193 Quotes by Hope Jahren

There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field - but it does not.

I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living.

Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly.

I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home.

We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered.

I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them.

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

I like weeds and hardy plants.

As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.