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.

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.

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

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.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

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

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.