“ Postage stamps are the memories of the world, the enchanted and magical, our dreams and our hopes. A tiny “Museum of Beauty” in the palm of your hand. When you were a child you could see things for the first time. Stamps awaken memories like that: The king of Great Britain engraved by a great artist, the face of Abraham Lincoln enshrined by a poet.  In your hand the first step man took on the Moon. 

Stamps are art. They will help us to see and to take care of the earth, our brothers and sisters who live here with us in the world.  We can look at a postage stamp of a tiger and see like we did as a child, the incredible radiant beauty of nature, a museum in the palm of your hand, sent down the generations to you from the leaders, poets and artist of generations gone by. “