“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.”
George Washington Carver, 1864-1943
Started his life as a slave and ended it as a
horticulturist, chemist and educator
Woods along Appalachian Trail, Roan Mountain
“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.”
George Washington Carver, 1864-1943
Started his life as a slave and ended it as a
horticulturist, chemist and educator
“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.”
George Washington Carver, 1864-1943
Started his life as a slave and ended it as a
horticulturist, chemist and educator
