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Though he arrived at his present feelings and scruples before they became fashionable, he is driven by many contemporary idealistic concerns???about nature and its misuse, about wealth, about manipulation of people. "Nothing is wrong in making as much bread as you need," he says, "but there are things wrong in making more bread than you need." To help ease that guilt, he has lately taken to giving away some of the proceeds from his public concerts?to, among others, the Hopi Indians. "I wish I were really part of the environment, part of the land," he says, "instead...
Before Luther Burbank died (April 11, 1926) he publicly expressed doubt about his personal immortality. He was more hopeful about the future of his experiments. Very carefully he labeled his seeds, left record of his problems. Two old U. S. concerns???W. Atlee Burpee Co. (seeds) of Philadelphia and Stark Brothers (fruit trees and shrubs) of Louisiana, Mo. will work in their separate fields to give Burbank's work the immortality self-denied to Burbank...
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