Name: Poetry that honors the remarkable life of George Washington Carver | Marilyn Nelson | TED Institute
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I am going to read three poems from the life of George Washington Carver.

He was in near contemporary of Albert Einstein, who proclaimed, pronounced Carver a great scientist after Carver's death covers.

Career began, Ah, as an attempt to understand why the soil of the South had been depleted, and he discovered that it was because of the years of growing cotton on Lee.

And he prescribed alternating crops, growing peanuts and then Southern farmers had peanuts.

They didn't know what to do with him, and Carver had to figure out how to use peanuts.

Um, so, um, he came up with hundreds of uses for this crop, including things like gasoline and motor oil on.

And then he went on to two more inventions, mostly having to do with crop sown during the first World War, Carver developed ways of dehydrating foods.

He was both a great scientist and a deeply religious man, and you'll see both of those things in these poems.

This first poem is called The Wild Garden.

Um, dated 1916 the flowers of circus canadensis ove eight file.

Otaka de Kandra leaves the separate leaves of Tarak sick.

Um, office Sonali viola species and trifle.

Liam proteins, flowers, a handful of tulip petals, a small chopped onion, splash of vinegar, a little salt and pepper and oil and voila!

Helping the creator makes nothing for which there is no use.

Wild vegetables, which make fine foods the pity, um, species, a common door yard pest can be cooked up his greens.

Searcy, um, mogari stems harvested with gloves and scissors in a roadside ditch and stripped of thorns can be steamed, drizzled and pulled through the teeth.

So the delicious heart whose is to the tongue?

If all crops perished, the race could survive on a balanced diet of wild vegetables.

Despite our ignorance of what their use might be.

We refused to thank them, but they keep on coming back with the creator's hand written invitation.

Try some of this po 10 till ity The dimensions of the Milky Way were discovered by Harlow sharply in 1918 and this is called the dimensions of the Milky Way.

At dusk on a late May evening, Carver lowers the paper and watches the light change.

He tries to see Earth across a distance of 25,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way.

A grain of pollen, a spore of galactic dust.

He looks around the shag bark, those swallows the fireflies that blasted mosquito, this beautiful world, Ah 100 billion stars in a roughly spherical flattened disk with a radius of 100 light years.

Well, Lord, this infinitesimal speck could fill the universe with praise Cover called his lab at Tuskegee Institute, God's little workshop.

And that's the title of this poem, a hand lettered sign above the room number on the closed door.

The professor had had another vision of an experiment.

He should ask The creators, small still, voice asked what would happen if you made a resin of peanut oil and added a little bit of this nitric acid here, Some of that sulfuric acid there, some alcohol, some camp for a little of this.

Would the molecules form clusters tightly bonded into one plastic, which could then be shaped and molded.

A thin white silence issued from the door seems settled on.

Made them walk softly, modulate their laughter.

Is Vikas Elastica the only plant on earth who sap is a latex?

Ba ta tas coagulated and stabilized, vulcanized and calm, pounded with an inert filler.

Would their sap become 1/2 solid half liquid, which deforms under applied stress?

 Yet after stretching recovers completely, the professor took his Eureka's on grueling medicine show lecture tours. 