“I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a gr...” — Hope Jahren Quote

“I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a grant. Now I'm that same person thinking that same way getting grants. That system of external rewards in science has always mystified me. It's fickle. And I also don't think it was constructed with people like me in mind.”

“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.”

“Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.”

“Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.”

“That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.”

“The best progressive policies are constructed by learning from past experiences while striving toward a more equitable future.”