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 themse…

- Joseph Dalton Hooker

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…

- Joseph Dalton Hooker

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

- Joseph Dalton Hooker

In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out …

- Joseph Dalton Hooker

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 Pi…

- Joseph Dalton Hooker

Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the mor…

- Joseph Dalton Hooker

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 o…

- Joseph Dalton Hooker