Quotes by Joseph Dalton Hooker

About Joseph Dalton Hooker:

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend. He was Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, for twenty years, in succession to his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science.
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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

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

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...

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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

Author Bio

  • NameJoseph Dalton Hooker
  • DescriptionBritish botanist
  • BornJune 30, 1817
  • DiedDecember 10, 1911
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionBotanist; Explorer; Mycologist; Pteridologist; Bryologist
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Companion Of The Order Of The Bath; Copley Medal; Order Of Merit For Arts And Science; Royal Medal