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“. Wikipedia
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Zitate Luther Burbank
„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
„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
„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
„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)
„When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard… his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves…“
p, 125
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
„In child rearing environment is equally essential with heredity.“
p, 125
The Training of the Human Plant (1907)
„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
