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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

„Ich fühle mich nicht gut.“

— Luther Burbank
Letzte Worte, 11. April 1926

„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.86“

— Luther Burbank

„The essential basis of life itself, namely,, is a substance composed largely of water and having the physical constitution of a viscid liquid.<!--p.77“

— Luther Burbank

„The mere crossing of species, unaccompanied by selection, wise supervision, intelligent care, and the utmost patience, is not likely to result in marked good, and may result in vast harm. Unorganized effort is often most vicious in its tendencies.<!--p.4“

— Luther Burbank

„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.86“

— Luther Burbank

„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.“

— Luther Burbank

„Pick out any trait you want in your child... By surrounding this child with sunshine from the sky and your own heart, by giving the closest communion with nature, by feeding this child well-balanced, nutritious food, by giving it all that is implied in healthful environmental influences, and by doing all in love, you can thus cultivate in the child and fix there for all its life all of these traits.<!--p. 48“

— Luther Burbank

„What takes place within the structure of the leaf, then, with the aid of the wonderful green workmen, is this: A certain number of molecules of water, brought to the leaf from root and stem, are taken in hand and compounded with a certain number of molecules of carbon extracted from the air that has been brought into the leaf laboratory through its mouths or ta from the outside atmosphere.
When the compound has been effected, we still have the atoms of hydrogen and oxygen that composed the water molecules and the atoms of carbon, but they are so marvelously put together that they no longer constitute the liquid water or the gas in which the carbon was imported. They now constitute an altogether new substance which is termed sugar.
Thus only three elements are dealt with and these very familiar ones. It would seem as if almost any chemist should be able to manage a simple combination like that. But... no human chemist knows how to manage it. There are forces to be invoked in effecting that combination of which no chemist has any knowledge.
Only the chlorophyll grains in the plant leaf have learned the secret, and up to the present they have kept their secret well.<!--pp.90-91“

— Luther Burbank

„But with those who are mentally defective—ah, here is the hardest question of all!—what shall be done with them?... In the case of human beings in whom the light of reason does not burn... shall they be eliminated from the race? Go to the mother of an imbecile child and get your answer.... For these helpless unfortunates, as with those who are merely unfortunate from environment, I should enlist the best and broadest state aid.<!--pp. 55-57“

— Luther Burbank

„The richest soil that was ever prepared would not grow a single blade of grass or the tiniest Weed if that soil were absolutely dry.... There must be water in the soil to dissolve out and transfer its elements in order that the rootlets of the plant shall be able to make the slightest use of these elements.... But... a plant may grow and thrive for a time quite without the presence of soil if its roots are placed in water.... some of the richest soils in the world are those that are absolutely barren and fully merit the designation of desert lands because water is lacking<!--pp.76-78“

— Luther Burbank

„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.<!--pp.86-87“

— Luther Burbank

„We may compare this sum of the life forces, which we call heredity, to the character of a sensitive plate in the camera. Outside pictures impress themselves more or less distinctly on the sensitive plate... Stored within heredity are all joys, sorrows, loves, hates, music, art, temples, palaces, pyramids, hovels, kings, queens, paupers, bards, prophets and philosophers, oceans, caves, volcanoes, floods, earthquakes, wars, triumphs, defeats, reverence, courage, wisdom, virtue, love and beauty, time, space, and all the mysteries of the universe. The appropriate environments will bring out and intensify all these general human hereditary experiences and quicken them again into life and action, thus modifying for good or evil, character—heredity—destiny.<!--pp. 82-83“

— Luther Burbank

„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.5“

— Luther Burbank

„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.75“

— Luther Burbank

„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.<!--pp. 47-48“

— Luther Burbank

„When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard... his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves...<!--p.87“

— Luther Burbank

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Zitate Luther Burbank

„Ich fühle mich nicht gut.“

„The essential basis of life itself, namely,, is a substance composed largely of water and having the physical constitution of a viscid liquid.<!--p.77“

„The mere crossing of species, unaccompanied by selection, wise supervision, intelligent care, and the utmost patience, is not likely to result in marked good, and may result in vast harm. Unorganized effort is often most vicious in its tendencies.<!--p.4“

„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.86“

„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.75“

„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.<!--pp. 47-48“

„When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard... his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves...<!--p.87“

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