Luther Burbank the famous botanist and horticulturist. We had a lesson about him in school days. I did not know much about plants and related science at that time. Far from my imagination was inventing new varieties of plants. For experiments ...For human progress .. for anything it might prove to be useful. What do i love more about him ? Whenever i read about how many varieties he has invented in his career and how many plants he used for his research (millions of plants), i keep thinking what kind of hard work is this ? I feel like tired if i do double the normal work i do on any given day and here there were people on earth who spent their life with millions of plants and never thought they have done enough. It make me think that whatever i do it's going to be very small work compared to this and i should just stop even thinking about my work as 'hard work' .
This person has many things named after him. One of which is Shasta daisy (see picture above).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burbank
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/21.html
Thank you sir for showing us what hard work means.
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