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Luther Burbank
Geburtstag: 7. März 1849
Todesdatum: 11. April 1926
Andere Namen: Лютер Бербанк
Luther Burbank war ein US-amerikanischer Pflanzenzüchter, der mehrere Hundert neuer Obst-, Gemüse- und Zierpflanzensorten züchtete. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „Burbank“.
Zitate Luther Burbank
„Nature has time without limit, but man has immediate need for better and still better food, houses and clothing, and our present state of civilization depends largely upon the improvements of plants and animals which have consciously and half-consciously been made by man, and future civilization must more and more depend upon scientific efforts to this end.“
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 1 Plant Breeding
„It is increasingly necessary to impress the fact that there are two distinct lines in the improvement of any race: the environment which brings individuals up to their best possibilities; the other, ten thousand times more important and effective, selection of the best individuals through a series of generations.“
Jordan's Commentary: These two lines correspond respectively to Galton's two elements in individual development, "Nurture" and "Nature."
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 1 Plant Breeding
„Let me lay emphasis on the opportunity now presented in the United States for observing and, if we are wise, aiding in what I think it fair to say is the grandest opportunity ever presented of developing the finest race the world has ever known out of the vast mingling of races brought here by immigration.“
p, 125
The Training of the Human Plant (1907)
„To the gardener who goes about his task with the right spirit must every plant appear as the most wonderful of laboratories in which miracles of transformation, outmatching the utmost feats of the most skillful conjurer, are being performed every hour.“
p, 125
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
„Sex is not a necessary attribute of all living things.. [it is] a most necessary attribute if progress in evolution of new forms is to occur, as they have progressed through the ages and as we now see them progressing on this planet.“
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 1 Plant Breeding
„No one at all understands why it is possible for the plant cell that bears within its substance one of these green chlorophyll bodies to combine certain inorganic elements into nutritious foods, a feat that no human chemist can perform.“
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
„The essential basis of life itself, namely, protoplasm, is a substance composed largely of water and having the physical constitution of a viscid liquid.“
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
„The most interesting thing in the world, from the standpoint of animal economy—which of course includes human economy—is the wonderful laboratory or factory of the plant…“
p, 125
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
„A knowledge of Mendelism is recognized by me as only the ABC to the broader knowledge of heredity necessary for success in animal and plant improvement, and all variations and all mutations of every nature are responses to environment which, by repetition and combination, are slowly but surely fixed in heredity and at last made tangible, most often through the crossing of varieties, species, or genera, either by nature or that part of nature called man.“
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 1 Plant Breeding
