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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.