“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.”
"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."
- George Washington Carver
Love
"If you love it enough, anything will talk with you."
- George Washington Carver
Love
"I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit."
- George Washington Carver
Love
"All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything."
- George Washington Carver
Awareness
"If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you."
- George Washington Carver
Awareness
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."
- Dorothy West
Learning
"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."
- Vince Gironda
Learning
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."
- Vincent van Gogh
Learning