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
thinking order people
It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
country men thinking
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.
thinking people world
Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.
thinking prejudice rearranging
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
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.
affirm instead law nature
Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
best change minds order people prejudices rearrange
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 to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
war fighting men
Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
brother believe animal
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.
children plant
Plants are as responsive to thought as children.
light saving found
The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.
sweet children sunshine
Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.
together way spirituality
Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.
ocean wire wish
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.