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When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard... his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves...

— Luther Burbank How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921)

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Those who are making history seldom have time to record it.

In child rearing environment is equally essential with heredity.

The Training of the Human Plant (1907)

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)

[I]t would, if possible, be best absolutely to prohibit in every State in the Union the marriage of the physically, mentally and morally unfit.

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water-bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud-turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in... any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of his education.

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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

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We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

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