"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from……" — Luther Burbank
"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety."
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Luther Burbank
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48 Quotes by Luther Burbank
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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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