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Luther Burbank
American
Environmentalist
About the author
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#Nature
#Laws
#Jury
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#Love
#Knowledge
#Breeding
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#Love
#May
#Truth
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#Science
#Truth
#Knowledge
#Nature
#Facts
#Laws
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#People
#Thinking
#World
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#Children
#World
#Living
#Evolution
#Progress
#Principles
We must return to nature and nature's god.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#God
#Nature
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#Now
#Children
#Living
#Attention
#Plants
#Jungle
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#Now
#Love
#Humanity
#Blessings
#Fulfillment
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#Nothing
#Environment
#Heredity
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#People
#Food
#Flowers
#Soul
#Medicine
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank,
American
Environmentalist
#People
#Change
#Order