193 Quotes by Hope Jahren

Once people begin to roll their eyes and gently tell you that you’re crazy, laugh with gratification. When you’re a scientist, it means that you’re doing it right.

I know that I could live without him: I have my own work, my own mission, and my own money. But I don’t want to. I really don’t want to.

Our impotent condemnation of weeds will not stop this revolution. We aren’t getting the revolution we want: we’re getting the one that we triggered. The.

My lab is a place where my guilt over what I haven’t done is supplanted by all of the things that I am getting done. My uncalled parents, unpaid credit cards, unwashed dishes, and unshaved legs pale in comparison to the noble breakthrough under pursuit. My lab is a place where I can be the child that I still am.

I hear my own voice shrieking out its bewilderment at finding so many imperfections within a world of limitless potential.

Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won’t take long. She’ll look you in the eye and say one word: “Money.

I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for war will always pay better than science for knowledge.

I have learned that raising a child is essentially one long, slow agony of letting go.

It is easy to become besotted with a willow. The Rapunzel of the plant world, this tree appears as a graceful princess bowed down by her lush tresses, waiting on the riverbank for someone just like you to come along and keep her company.