Luther Burbank Quotes

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank

Gardening, Food, Sunshine

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

Environmental, Love, Great

We must return to nature and nature's god.
Luther Burbank

Environmental, Nature, God

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

Change, Best, Keep

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

Gardening, Children, Living

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

Greatest, Thinking, Less

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
Luther Burbank

Love, Truth, May

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank

Best, Once, While

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
Luther Burbank

Nothing, Heredity, Stored

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
Luther Burbank

Gardening, Love, Knowledge

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank

Environmental, Nature, Judge

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

Happy, Forward, Simple

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Luther Burbank

Nature, Truth, Knowledge

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: March 7, 1849

Died: April 11, 1926

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