George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver, was an American botanist and inventor. The exact day and year of his birth are unknown; he was born into slavery in Missouri, either in 1861, or January 1864...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth12 July 1864
CityDiamond, MO
CountryUnited States of America
George Washington Carver quotes about
flower years long
When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.
flower littles woods
All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.
life flower hypocrite
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
giving-up flower secret
I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .
giving-up flower love-you
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.
enough ifs
If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.
sleep thinking last-words
I think I'll sleep now.
learning looks environment
Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
mean hands years
Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.
real successful dark
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.
creativity years creative
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
caring self years
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
new-beginnings today-not-tomorrow words-of-wisdom
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
nature teaching able
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.