Where flowers bloom so does hope.
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.
Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.
My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.
Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.
Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.
Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.
The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.
While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.
