I think we get used to not seeing...... Quote by "Hope Jahren"

I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.
— Hope Jahren

Tags: things, think, green, you

Other Quotes by "Hope Jahren"

"You are the one for whom the world has waited. And you will give it all back; you will pour out all you know and then wallow knee-deep in thick viscous love, love, love." (From Lab Girl"
— Hope Jahren

Tags: love, love-is, contributing-to-knowledge, contribution-to-society, contributing, giving-back, helping-others-in-need, helping-out, helping-hand, helping-others, world, hope

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

Tags: very, little, serving, girl

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

Tags: grace, sun, you, eyes

The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you can use that as a kind of compass, and you can be secure in the fact that you're working for the right reason, and you're going in the right direction.
— Hope Jahren

Tags: direction, your, world, you

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

Tags: farmer, plants, dinner, i-am