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

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

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

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

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

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

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

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

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

The knowledge of God is beginning of all knowledge.

Love is a strange creature that no man can understand

Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

To me YES, AND means don't be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you're adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.