…necessarily doing anything to change the patterns upon which these things are built. and I remember very definitely when I was talking with Luther Burbank and he pointed out he said if the plant is healthy there will be no bugs it must first be sick and…

…but I think we have to bear it in mind when we are talking about heredity I think we are saying exactly what Luther Burbank said when he crossed pollinized plants that he was able to prove conclusively that the strains of these plant colors and forms…

…with it, to rationalize with it. And I think perhaps one of the best examples of that is the story I tell about Luther Burbank, who was able, as he told me, to accomplish certain things with plants because he had sense enough to sit down and talk…

…life. and all of life from then on was never the same as it had been before. The same might be said, too, of Luther Burbank with his love of flowers and plants. Here's a man who was able, very obviously, to influence flowers and plants. I saw him one…

…the convictions of most oriental people It was also contrary to the conviction of probably one of Western man's greatest horticulturists, Luther Burbank, who was perfectly aware, as he said, that while man has five senses, that plants have as many as 20…

…to see that good things are well fertilized and well cultivated. It is also within his province to be a kind of Luther Burbank, to be able to improve the qualities of plants. And we have another hermetic axiom, namely that art perfects nature. In this…

…the realization that everything that we see around us is a manifestation of one thing. A simple way of finding that is when Luther Burbank found it. He looked around, he saw all kinds of flowers and plants. If you look at them first, you can say, well,…

…at any given time Now, in a field of land researches, such as Port Ocean, for example, come along a person like Luther Burbank, or a man like Dr. Carver. He begins to fulfill the alchemical enemies of our perfect nature. Burbank became a great student…