“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.” LoveNeedsSecretProtectPlantExperimentsVarietyDesertThornsBreedingProtect YouConductingScientific KnowledgeCactusSpineless Author:Luther Burbank
“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.” IfsMenGivingWellsChildrenSoulGrowsWalksTeachJourneySweetWalkingDrinkLessonsPureMen And WomenPlantContactWanderPleasantAbundanceBeing The BestSunshineHikingBalancedSurroundingsDewNourishmentTrekkingStrollingSaunteringDogmatic Author:Luther Burbank
“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.” MenGivingMindLittlesSelfWholeFoundLostGrowsLosesMy OwnRoomsAtheismFlowerPrideIntellectualConsequenceGardenPlantSatisfactionVicesPositive AtheismContactArroganceBigotryWeedIntoleranceBasketsOf My MindSelf-satisfaction Author:Luther Burbank
“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.” HumanityNaturalBlessingHighestIntelligentPlantEnvironmentalFulfillmentGrandchildrenSelectionCrossingsOnly LoveGreat Outdoors Author:Luther Burbank
“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.” IfsChildrenAttentionInspireGardenPaidOur ChildrenPlantParentingWeedJungleConcrete Jungle Author:Luther Burbank
“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.” WorldLooksChildrenMy OwnSimplePrinciplesProgressTaughtEvolutionHealthyPlantLifetimeRationalSimple LivingWondrousHealthy Happy Author:Luther Burbank
“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.” LoveSecretKnowledgeGardenPlantGardeningGrandchildrenBreedingSecret LoveScientific KnowledgeGardening And GodSpineless Author:Luther Burbank
