George Washington Carver urged people to seek God’s direction, look beyond self to find success, proceed with what is right without waiting for appreciation, accept human limitations, and leave the rest to God. He recalled spending days alone in the woods collecting flowers for a hidden garden and being called the plant doctor because vegetation seemed to thrive under his touch. He said his prayers were more an attitude than spoken words, asking the Great Creator silently and often for permission to understand the animal, mineral, and vegetable kingdoms and their relations to humanity and God. He taught that every person should leave distinct and legitimate reasons for having lived, that service to God and others is what counts, that his aim was to help the man farthest down by making every process as simple as possible, that people must work together as the fingers of a hand, and that drawing closer to nature helps reveal the Divine. He also said that what mattered was not how long he would live but how much he could do while living.