Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

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

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

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.

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.