Science Quote by 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, and they…

— 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 knew that…

— 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 like nobody…

— 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 to grow…

— 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 that same…

— Hope Jahren

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

— Hope Jahren

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

— Hope Jahren