Joseph Dalton Hooker Quotes

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

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