Luther Burbank Quotes (20 Quotes)

I don't feel good.

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.

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

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.

I don't fell good.

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

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.

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

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.

Man should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

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.

The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.

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.

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

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

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion give them nature

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see I want no part of such a God

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.