Michurin's famous quote

[Steve Marder]

> Dear SEELANGers,
> 
> I am looking into the background of the quote attributed to the
> Russian/Soviet botanist Ivan Michurin:
> 
> My ne mozhem zhdat¹ milostei ot prirody.  Vziat¹ ikh u nee ‹ nasha zadacha!
> 
> Can anyone suggest a source (preferably in Russian) that gives information
> about where this statement originally appeared?

According to one source (Vadim Serov. Entsiklopedicheskiy slovar' krylatykh
slov i vyrazheniy, M., 2004, p. 453), the celebrated phrase was written by
Michurin for the introduction to the third edition of his works: "Plodovody
budut pravil'no deystvovat' v tekh sluchayakh, esli oni budut sledovat'
moemu postoyannomu pravilu: "My ne mozhem zhdat' milostey ot prirody, vzyat'
ikh u nee -- nasha zadacha." (I. V. Michurin, "Itogi shestidesyatiletnikh
trudov po vyvedeniyu novykh sortov plodovykh rasteniy," izd. 3-e, M., 1934).

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