Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developeda spineless cactusand the plumcot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 March 1849
CountryUnited States of America
weed flower garden
A flower is an educated weed.
love secret needs
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.
heredity-and-environment ancestry ancestor
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
law judging environmental
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
book religion judgment
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .
children butterfly animal
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.
nature flower sunshine
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
thinking people world
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.