No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

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.

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

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

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

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