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… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“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… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share
In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science. — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist.… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
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