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.

- 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 cro…

- Luther Burbank

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often…

- Luther Burbank

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees t…

- Luther Burbank

Plants are as responsive to thought as children.

- Luther Burbank

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

- Luther Burbank

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

- Luther Burbank

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

- Luther Burbank

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

- Luther Burbank