““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 rhodos. 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. [perpetual snow] 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 naturalist's eye & twenty species here, to one there, always are asking me the vexed question, where do we come from? [Letter to Charles Darwin 24 Jun 1849]””
![“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 rhodos. 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. [perpetual snow] that, here…” quote by Joseph Dalton Hooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/48a/joseph-dalton-hooker-39139_biology_i-am-above-the-forest-region-amongst-gra_2769144.jpg)
![“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]” quote by Joseph Dalton Hooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0a5/joseph-dalton-hooker-39139_biology_i-was-aware-of-darwin-s-views-fourteen-y_548151.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Joseph Dalton Hooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/758/joseph-dalton-hooker-39139_courage_in-david-douglas-s-success-in-life-his-g_1442173.jpg)
![“I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science. [Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]” quote by Joseph Dalton Hooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c5d/joseph-dalton-hooker-39139_author_i-expect-to-think-that-i-would-rather-be_3090262.jpg)
