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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 plants themselves.

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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.

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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 question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

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.

Joseph Dalton Hooker

I must own I had always looked on worms as amongst the most helpless and unintelligent members of the creation; and am amazed to find that they have a domestic life and public duties! I shall now respect them, even in our Garden pots; and regard them as something better than food for fishes.

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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Born: June 30, 1817

Died: December 10, 1911 (aged 94)

Bio: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend.

Known for:

Flora Antarctica (1843)
The Student's Flora of the British Isles
The Student's Flora of the British Islands (1870)

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