Flowers In The City Are Like Lipstick

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.

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.

Some May Wonder Why I Chose Wildflowers When There Are Hunger And Unemployment And The Big Bomb In The World. Well, I, For One, Think We Will Survive, And I Hope That Along The Way We Can Keep Alive Our Experience With The Flowering Earth. For The Bounty Of Nature Is Also One Of The Deep Needs Of Man.

No News At 4:30 A.m. Is Good.

Science And Time And Necessity Have Propelled Us, The United States, To Be The General Store Of The World, Dealers In Everything. Most Of All, Merchants For A Better Way Of Life.