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> [ “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 the plants themselves. \[Letter to W.H. Harvey\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/i-was-aware-of-darwin-s-views-fourteen-years-before-i-adopted-them/)

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## More by Joseph Dalton Hooker

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/i-was-aware-of-darwin-s-views-fourteen-years-before-i-adopted-them/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/all-i-ever-aim-to-do-is-to-put-the-development-hypothesis-in-the-same/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/i-was-aware-of-darwin-s-views-fourteen-years-before-i-adopted-them-2/)

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> [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 more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/plants-in-a-state-of-nature-are-always-warring-with-one-another/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/i-am-above-the-forest-region-amongst-grand-rocks-such-a-torrent-as/)

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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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/in-david-douglas-s-success-in-life-his-great-activity-undaunted/)

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> [I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/i-was-aware-of-darwin-s-views-fourteen-years-before-i-adopted-them-3/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/i-expect-to-think-that-i-would-rather-be-author-of-your-book-than-of/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/from-my-earliest-childhood-i-nourished-and-cherished-the-desire-to/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/i-am-above-the-forest-region-amongst-grand-rocks-such-a-torrent-as-2/)

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> [ “I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book \[The Origin of Species\] than of any other on Nat. Hist.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-dalton-hooker/i-expect-to-think-that-i-would-rather-be-author-of-your-book-the/)

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