The collection / 30 fragments

The living archive

Passages, proverbs, and questions carried across the ages.

SearchTypeTopicEraCulture / collection labelCountry attributionTraditionOrder

Author

Leave empty for every voice. Browse all authors ↗

Culture labels and country attributions follow the source collections; earliest origins may be unknown.

30 results · Page 2 of 2Play this collection ▷

01Undated

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Luther Burbank / quote

02Undated

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Luther Burbank / quote

03Undated

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Luther Burbank / quote

04Undated

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Luther Burbank / quote

05Undated

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Luther Burbank / quote

06Undated

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Luther Burbank / quote