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.

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.

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

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

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

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

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