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

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

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

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.

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.

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.