“A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits.” — Hope Jahren Quote

“A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits.”

“I grew up in a small town.”

“A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge.”

“Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.”

“What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.”

“All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.”