The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned.
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
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
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
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.
Plants are as responsive to thought as children. - Luther Burbank
Plants are as responsive to thought as children.
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
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often…
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees t… - Luther Burbank
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees t…
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
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. - Luther Burbank
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. - Luther Burbank
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy. - Luther Burbank
The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
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