5 Quotes & Sayings By Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker was born in Richmond, Virginia, on August 10, 1827. He was educated at the University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania. He was a professor of botany at the University of Tennessee (1855–59) and University of Maryland (1859–67). He was appointed professor of botany at Harvard (1867–71), becoming its Samuel B Read more

Woodward Professor of Botany in 1873. Hooker's works include The Vegetable Kingdom, Geography (with James H. Kidd), and A History of the Earth and Its Inhabitants.

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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] Joseph Dalton Hooker
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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. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker
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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 individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler. Joseph Dalton Hooker
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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 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] . Joseph Dalton Hooker