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George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943), was an American botanist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.

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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.

Flower, Hypocrite, Know, Life

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.

Apply, Hands, Mean, Unkind, Way, Years

You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.

Instead, Land, Nature, Result, Suffering, Years

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.

Centre, Creative, Creativity, Scientist, Years

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Cut, Cutting, Life, Thorough Understanding, Veneer

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Aged, Funny, Inspirational, Life, Someday, Weak

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.

Beautiful, Mean, Nothing, Time, Understanding

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell. . . as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

Believe, Fall, Nature, Oil, Storehouse, Things

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.

Constantly, Dark, Despondent, Real, Rejoice, Success

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

Accomplish, Blessed, Literally, Nothing, Prayer, Religion

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

Discoveries, Discovery, Gave, God, Sell, Sells

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

Humanity, Interest, Single, Thank, Thank God

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

Assessment, Live, Living, Long, Motivational

There is no shortcut to achievement.

Achievement, Persistence, Shortcut, Shortcuts

There is no short cut to acheivement.

Acheivement, Cut, Cutting, Short, Short Cuts

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

Carefully, Enough, Ifs, Listening, Talk

As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again.

Believe, Critic, Human, Man, Real, Sleep

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

Against, Hate, Hell, Negro, Real, White

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Hope, Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

Book, Books, Hands, Revealed, Thing, Would Be

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