Areas Quote by 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 more vigorous overgrowing and killing the more delicate. Every modification of climate, every disturbance of the soil, every interference with the existing vegetation of an area, favours some species at the expense of others.”
![“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 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 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)
![“I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these…” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c7/hillary-clinton-51_action_i-am-somewhat-influenced-by-the-years-th_9078.jpg)
