Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

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.

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

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.

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.