“To create one's own world takes courage.”

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.”

“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

“One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.”

“You are one of my nicest thoughts.”

“The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.”

“I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.”