Zitate von Luther Burbank
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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
„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
„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
„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)
„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
„The plant laboratories in which this wonderful and vitally essential transformation is effected are chiefly located in the leaf of the plant… the thoughtful person must regard this structure—the most ordinary green leaf of tree or shrub or vine or the tiniest blade of grass—as in some respects the most wonderful thing in the world.“
p, 125
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
„During the course of many years of investigation into the plant life of the world, creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others, I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.“
p, 125
The Training of the Human Plant (1907)
„In manufacturing food for its own cells, the plant is producing a supply of food that will be available for the sustenance of animal cells also. Thus the entire animal World may be said to be a vast parasitic colony as absolutely dependent upon the vegetable colony for its essential food supplies as any other parasite is dependent upon its host.“
p, 125
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
„There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.“
p, 125
The Training of the Human Plant (1907)
