Hope Jahren’s remarkable memoir is both personal odyssey and the story of her profound affinity with the natural worldLeaves,soil and seeds. Not normally words that make your pulse race. But they effect light a fire in the mind and heart of Hope Jahren. In her hands, you will never feel the same way approximately these words again. Leaves become elegant machines, and soil is the interface between the living and the dead,and seeds, well, and they are transformed into the most patient and hopeful of all life forms. Jahren has such a passion for the natural world that it’s tough to imagine her in any role other than her current one; a professor of geobiology at the University of Hawaii. Lab Girl is her engaging fresh memoir,which tells the story of her fight to set up and fund her own research laboratory. And it’s been a fascinating journey.
The mass ratio of plant to animal life on land is around a thousand to one. Plants dominate the worldContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com