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Hope Jahren
American Scientist
Born: Sep 27, 1969
Me People Science Think Women You
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming
I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything. Hope Jahren
Future Job Somebody Think Everything Evidence Destroying Future Generations Some Generations Leave Were While Who Cared
A tree's wood is also its memoir. Hope Jahren
Tree Memoir Also Wood
I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living. Hope Jahren
Plants Dinner Living Dinner Table Table Studies Come Am Questions Which Ask Means Your Farmer Researcher Who
My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe. Hope Jahren
Church Believe Out Like Because Laboratory Where Figure
You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you're lucky. Wild strawberries can't be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun. Hope Jahren
You Eyes Grace Smell Discouraged Closed Wild Sun Pick Part Come Hour Perfume Parts Nor Encouraged Handful Unearned Yield Taste Them Might Your Appear Lucky Searching Strawberries Two
No matter how much funding I get, I'm always thinking, 'This is temporary. This is fragile. It could all end tomorrow, and how am I going to make today worth it? If this is my last day in the lab, what can I do so that I can walk out of here saying, 'That was a good day?'' Hope Jahren
Today Saying Good Day Good Day Worth Matter Walk Tomorrow Thinking Worth It Out Temporary Could Make Always How Am How Much Lab End Get Going Much Funding Here Last Fragile
I love rocks with the unconditional love that you lavish upon a newborn baby. Hope Jahren
Love You Baby Lavish Unconditional Unconditional Love Rocks Newborn
I'm a scientist - a geobiologist who's been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I wanted, needed, to tell people - and not just other scientists - about my life in science. Hope Jahren
Life Day Science People Soil My Life Other Trees One Day Tell Seeds About Studying Over Scientist Scientists Been Years Just Wanted Realized Twenty Flowers Needed
A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge. Hope Jahren
Knowledge Own True Perform Thus Develops New She Scientist New Knowledge Experiments Wholly Prescribed Her
I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home. Hope Jahren
Love Home Between Lab Forest Quiet Stands
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.' Hope Jahren
You Science Money Word Long Worries Say Eye One Word About Take Look She Ask Professor
In New England, the pin oak thrives, its leaves tipping to a thorny point in a good-natured impression of its evergreen neighbor, the holly bush. Hope Jahren
Thrive Thorny Neighbor Oak Point Good-Natured New New England Leaves Pin Impression Tipping Bush Holly England
In my Scandinavian-American family, we were conditioned never to sit, at least not comfortably. I was endlessly going back to work. We longed for the fleeting respite of being useful and regarded sleep as a reward for exhaustion, always to be deferred until after the sun goes down. Hope Jahren
Work Family Reward Sit Down Deferred Back Sun Never Until Comfortably Always Least Exhaustion Were Conditioned Goes Endlessly Going Being After Regarded Fleeting Useful Sleep
The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent - despite more than 20 years of programs intended to encourage the participation of girls and women. Hope Jahren
Women Girl Programs Progressive Despite More Only Absence Stem Participation Within Years Encourage Than Persistent Intended
My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses. Hope Jahren
Me Relatively Punished Sexual Rarely Only Also Very Reported Experiences After Pattern Then Convinced Harassment Publicly
The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an inadvertent clearinghouse for unsolicited love notes. Hope Jahren
Love Me Justice Science Women Writing Colleagues Sexual About More Share Unsolicited Since Academia Course Because Within Female Been Moved Stories Predictable Infuriating Notes Harassment Evasion Started
I am a scientist who studies plants. I like plants. I think about plants almost every hour of the day, and several hours of the night as well. Hope Jahren
Day Plants Every Think Several About Studies Almost Hour Like Hours Well Am Scientist Who Night
There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field - but it does not. Hope Jahren
Women Men Men And Women Power Field Believe Imbalance Would Born Following Follows Between Like Also Learned Does Laboratory Short Stops Us Workplace Fundamental Violence
You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank. Hope Jahren
You Will Drive Think Corn State Syrup Seeds About Percent More Fed Through Devoted Iowa Pigs Tank Than Sown Where Grain Place Them Land Ethanol Acres Your Farmers Farming Less Farms Many Grow Gas
Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft. Hope Jahren
Girl Slide Rule Very Little Little Girl Even Serving Wield
As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will. Hope Jahren
Life Environmental Plant Nurture Will First Exploitation Think Our Feed Always Shelter Scientist Required Need
It's very important to put children in an environment where they can take things apart; where they can break things and then learn to fix them; where they can trust their hands and know their capacity to manipulate objects. Hope Jahren
Trust Important Objects Take Put Environment Know Learn Very Fix Hands Where Children Break Apart Manipulate Them Capacity Then Things
I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains. Hope Jahren
Work Best Learning Active Think Our Able About Brains Hands Done Just Manipulation Using Need
Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics. Hope Jahren
Science People Rest Our Various Performed Subject Dynamics Plague Social
Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize activity. It's this constant balancing act that we do. Hope Jahren
Women World Safety Live Every Consider Our Minimize Constant Risk Forced Balancing Maximize Where While Turn Act Activity
When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy. Hope Jahren
Understand Boy Came Five
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