Quotes by : Hope Jahren

People don't know to make a leaf, but they know how to destroy one.

I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know things that I need....

Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.

Oh, I'm not worried about him,' returned Bill. 'He's gone. It's not any more complicated than that. Honestly,....

I wonder who else in the world was having such an exquisite dawn.

Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Remember....

No risk is more terrifying than that taken by the first root. A lucky root will eventually find water,....

Our world is falling apart quietly. Human civilization has reduced the plant, a four-million-year-old....

My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in....

People will tell you that you have to know math to be a scientist, or physics or chemistry. They're wrong.....