George Washington Carver's 4 A.M. Walks

In the 1890s, a former enslaved man named George Washington Carver began a habit he would keep for the rest of his life. Every morning at four o'clock, long before the campus of Tuskegee Institute stirred, Carver walked alone into the woods of rural Alabama. He called these walks his conversations with the Creator. "I ask the Great Creator what the universe was made for," he once told a reporter.…