Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

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

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.

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.

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

My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.

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