Luther Burbank Quotes

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• Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
• 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…
• We must return to nature and nature's god.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
• If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
• Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
• Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that…
• It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
• Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
• A flower is an educated weed.
• Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the…
• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening…
• The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to…
• All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the…
• The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are…
• If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road…
• For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

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