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.

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

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

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.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.