Luther Burbank citáty
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Luther Burbank
Datum narození: 7. březen 1849
Datum úmrtí: 11. duben 1926
Další jména:Лютер Бербанк
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Luther Burbank byl americký botanik a šlechtitel rostlin.
V roce 1875 se odstěhoval do Santa Rosy v kalifornském okrese Sonoma, kde za dědictví po otci koupil 6,9 ha pozemku a založil experimentální zahrady. I když nebyl vysokoškolsky vzdělaný, vyšlechtil asi 800 kultivarů. Spolu s Edisonem či Henry Fordem byl jedním z nejznámějších mužů své doby. Svými beztrnými kultivary opuncií umožnil novou etapu ve využití tohoto kaktusu. Nejvíce úspěchů dosáhl při šlechtění peckovin.
Zajímavostí může být obraz Luther Burbank od mexické malířky Fridy Kahlo.
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„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.“
— Luther Burbank
p, 125
„Look at the material on which to draw. Here is the North, powerful, virile, aggressive, blended with the luxurious, ease-loving, more impetuous South. Again you have the merging of a cold phlegmatic temperament with one mercurial and volatile. Still again the union of great native mental strength, developed or undeveloped, with bodily vigor, but with inferior mind. See, too, what a vast number of environmental influences have been at work in social relations, in climate, in physical surroundings. Along with this we must observe the merging of the vicious with the good, the good with the good, the vicious with the vicious.“
— Luther Burbank
p, 125
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„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.“
— Luther Burbank
p, 125
„During the course of many years of investigation into the plant life of the world, creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others, I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.“
— Luther Burbank
p, 125
„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.“
— Luther Burbank
p, 125
„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.“
— Luther Burbank
p, 125
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„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.“
— Luther Burbank
p, 125
„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.“
— Luther Burbank
p, 125
„Heredity is not the dark specter which some people have thought—merciless and unchangeable, the embodiment of Fate itself. This dark, pessimistic belief which tinges even the literature of to-day comes, no doubt, from the general lack of knowledge of the laws governing the interaction of these two ever-present forces of heredity and environment wherever there is life.
My own studies have led me to be assured that heredity is only the sum of all past environment, in other words environment is the architect of heredity; and I am assured of another fact: acquired characters are transmitted and—even further—that all characters which are transmitted have been acquired...“
— Luther Burbank
p, 125
