Celebrating 20 years of festivities commemorating Dr. George Washington Carver
Anything will give up its secrets. . .
"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."
Fear is the root . . .
"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater."
Pictured: Dr. Carver boxing with a friend
Why should, we who believe in Christ, be surprised at what God can do . . .
"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."
Pictured: Dr. Carver and Henry Ford
Nature speaks with the voice of God . . .
"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God."
God, tell me the mystery of the universe . . .
"When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me."
Command the attention of the world . . .
"When you can do the common things in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
Pictured: Dr. Carver and President Roosevelt
If your work is only about right, then it is wrong . . .
"There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong."
Start where you are . . .
How far you go in life . . .
How far you go in life . . .
"Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied."
How far you go in life . . .
How far you go in life . . .
How far you go in life . . .
"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."
Education is the key . . .
How far you go in life . . .
Nature an unlimited broadcasting station . . .
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."
Nature an unlimited broadcasting station . . .
Nature an unlimited broadcasting station . . .
"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."
The key to dreams lie within . . .
"Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within."
We have become ninety-nine percent money mad . . .
"We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts."
Whatever you love opens its secrets . . .
"Whatever you love opens its secrets to you".
Education is understanding relationships . . .
"Education is understanding relationships."
Leave behind a reason . . .
Leave behind a reason . . .
"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it."