Joseph Dalton Hooker Quotes

• I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Independent, Science, Views

  "Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I".

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• From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  País, Escritura, Ciencia

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• All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Science, Development, Evolution

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• Las plantas, en un estado de naturaleza, siempre están luchando entre sí, disputándose el monopolio del suelo, la más fuerte expulsando a la más débil, la más vigorosa sobrecreciendo y matando a la más delicada. Toda modificación del clima, toda alteración del suelo, toda interferencia con la vegetación existente en una zona, favorece a unas especies en detrimento de otras.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Science, Stronger, Climate

  Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Thomson (1855). “Introductory essay to the Flora Indica: including preliminary observations on the study of Indian botany; a summary of the labours of Indian botanists; a sketch of the meteorology of India; outlines of the physical geography and botany of the provinces of India: With 2 Maps. By J. D. Hooker and Thomas Thomson. Reprinted from the "Flora Indica"”, p.41

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• I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodods. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. that, here shoot up on all hands there is little difference in the mt scenery—here however the blaze of Rhod. flowers and various colored jungle proclaims a differently constituted region in a naturalists eye & twenty species here, to one there, always are asking me the vexed question, where do we come from?

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Flower, Eye, Rocks

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• In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Life, Success, Science

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• I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Book, Thinking, Evolution

  Joseph Dalton Hooker, Leonard Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I.”, p.511, Cambridge University Press

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