Carver, George Washington
George Washington Carver was born a slave about 1864. He became a director of agricultural research at Tuskegee Institute. He specialized in soil improvement and crop diversification. In the process, he discovered many uses for soybeans, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and cotton waste. He died in 1943.

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If you love it enough, anything will talk with you. George Washington Carver, 1963.

 

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms. Ibid.