Alive Quote by Hope Jahren

“Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.”

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A tree's wood is also its memoir.

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

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One thing that was very important to me was that I felt comfortable in the lab from being very, very small. I knew that that's where I belonged, and I could fix things and move things. And no matter how many classrooms I went into where I was the only girl in the physics class or whatever, I never questioned…

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

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

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I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody…

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

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

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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…

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

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

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I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the…

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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