George Washington Carver and the 4 A.M. Garden

Long before the laboratory lights flickered on at Tuskegee Institute, George Washington Carver was already awake. Every morning at four o'clock, the agricultural scientist walked into the darkness of his garden, hands open, listening. He called these walks his conversations with the Creator. "I never have to grind out my work," Carver once explained. "When I go into the garden at four, God tells me what to do."…