Breeding Quote by Luther Burbank Download Open image “The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.” — Luther Burbank ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Breeding Gardening Knowledge Love Plant Scientific knowledge Secret
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be… — David C.H. Austin Copy Share Image
“When I gardened at home, I often considered how the growth of plants resembles the gradual growth of the spirit. And seeing life make… — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power is not a desire to enslave others, this power is not a destructive force. This power is the very source of creation. This power is creativity. And this power will transform you totally into a new being. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share
Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The most important seed you can plant is kindness; the most important crop it yields is joy.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
“The seeds of love may sprout where they will, but we choose whether to water them and give them light or to pluck them… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . . — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or later become… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding… — Alice Walton Copy Share Image
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
