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.

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

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.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.