A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.
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.
- 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
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…
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…
Plants are as responsive to thought as children. - Luther Burbank
Plants are as responsive to thought as children.
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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