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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERNothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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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.
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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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It is simply service that measures success.
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He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.
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My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.
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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.
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God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.
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