Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

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

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.

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.

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.

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

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