Creative Quotations from Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

	Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
	Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
	For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
	The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
	The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.

	It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
	Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
	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 weed.
	Man should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
	Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.