Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Nature, Mutual Interest, Earth Day

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• Where flowers bloom so does hope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Hope, Spring, Flower

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Garden, Childhood, Untamed

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• The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Freedom, Ideas, Sound

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Stress, Adventure, Alive

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Believe, Kids

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• 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.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Earth

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• 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.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Nature, Texas, Land

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• 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.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Home, Heart, Order

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• 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.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Mean, Air

  "Lady Bird Johnson’s Letters Affirm Passion for Nature" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Fear, Business, Women

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• There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Government, Tree

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Renewal, Site, Thirst

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Flower, Color, Cities

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• Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Breakup, Stronger, Able

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Laughter, Book, Inspiration

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• Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Heart, Wildflowers, Stuff

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Snow, Thrill, Growing

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• How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Memories, Scrapbooking, Lucky

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• The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Responsibility, Past, Opportunity

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• While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Community, Important, Spirit

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• Art is the window to man's soul.
  Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world;
  nor could the world see the man within.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Art, Men, Soul

  "Modern Museum Reopens With New Wings" by Richard F. Shepard, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 1964.

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• I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Believe, Eye, Society

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• I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Art, Clothes, Looks

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