Hope Jahren

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

— Hope Jahren

“You and I are going to work our asses off, teach them shit over and over, risk our fucking lives for them,…

— Hope Jahren

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

— Hope Jahren

One thing that was very important to me was that I felt comfortable in the lab from being very, very small. I…

— Hope Jahren

If every seed turned into a plant, we'd be living in a very different world.

— Hope Jahren

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

— Hope Jahren

I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me…

— Hope Jahren

The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than…

— Hope Jahren

For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months.

— Hope Jahren

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…

— Hope Jahren

Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is…

— Hope Jahren

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

— Hope Jahren

“People will tell you that you have to know math to be a scientist, or physics or chemistry. They’re wrong. That’s like…

— Hope Jahren

No matter how much funding I get, I'm always thinking, 'This is temporary. This is fragile. It could all end tomorrow, and…

— Hope Jahren

“Everybody does all kinds of shit that they don’t know why they do. They just know that they have to,”

— Hope Jahren

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

— Hope Jahren

“He stares at me with the calm, friendly face of a Saint Bernard who has just dug you out of the snow…

— Hope Jahren

We have to be very careful about acknowledging that the Internet is very good at combatting isolation, but it's not very good…

— Hope Jahren

My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't…

— Hope Jahren

Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize…

— Hope Jahren

“I started out studying literature, but soon discovered that science was where I actually belonged. The contrast made it all the clearer:…

— Hope Jahren

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

— Hope Jahren

The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent - despite more than 20 years of programs…

— Hope Jahren

I can explain to you in detail just how a tree can be made into paper. But I've always wondered - and…

— Hope Jahren

“Yes, I am his mother—I can say that now—for only after I released myself from my own expectations of motherhood did I…

— Hope Jahren