Best quotes by Hope Jahren on Plants

Checkout quotes by Hope Jahren on Plants

• ‟ Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.

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• ‟ While both plants and animals awaken via distinct changes in metabolic functioning, most plants prefer to err on the side of caution, waiting for hints of full-on summer before they bloom.

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• ‟ I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves.

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• ‟ Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

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• ‟ My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.

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• ‟ I like weeds and hardy plants.

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