Luther Burbank

“Heredity is nothing but stored environment.”

“What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more.”

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

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

“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 weeds.”

“To be beautiful and to be calm is the ideal of nature.”

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

“Don't wait for success to fall into your lap. Do whatever you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“We must learn that any person who will not accept what he knows to be truth, for the very love of truth alone, is very definitely undermining his own integrity.”

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

“A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”

“Science is the organized search for truth.”

“Let us have a care for the children's dreams, for they are the golden keys to their future.”

“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, and mud turtles, bees, ants, butterflies, and pets to care for.”