Luther Burbank (1849–1926) 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 developed a spineless cactus and the plumcot.
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The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
—Luther Burbank
Topics: Kindness, Service, Giving
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
Topics: Change, Thinking, Prejudice
Life is growth-a challenge of environment. If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then this splendid balance of cosmic forces which we call life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction. Therefore, health is the most precious of all things.
—Luther Burbank
Topics: Growth, Time Management, Value of Time
A flower is an educated weed.
—Luther Burbank
Topics: Gardening, One liners
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
—Luther Burbank
Topics: Flowers
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.
—Luther Burbank
Nature’s law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
—Luther Burbank
Topics: Nature
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.
—Luther Burbank
I don’t fell good.
—Luther Burbank
Topics: Last Words
Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.
—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.
—Luther Burbank
Topics: Children
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