"If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with……" — Luther Burbank
"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 toward misfortune, misery and destruction."
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48 Quotes by Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank has 48 quotes on this site.
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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the…
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We must return to nature and nature's god.
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Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the…
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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be…
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In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically…
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The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
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If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
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Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there…
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It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
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Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
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