Lady Bird Johnson: The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Lady Bird Johnson

flower hope spring

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

mutual-interest earth-day nature

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

Lady Bird Johnson

believe kids children

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

earth men thinking

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

Lady Bird Johnson

untamed childhood garden

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

government tree children

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

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

air mean children

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

Lady Bird Johnson

stress alive adventure

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

texas nature land

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

Lady Bird Johnson

color flower cities

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

Lady Bird Johnson

women business fear

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

Lady Bird Johnson

thrill growing snow

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

site thirst renewal

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

Lady Bird Johnson

wildflowers stuff heart

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 inspiration book

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

stronger able breakup

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

Lady Bird Johnson

thought-provoking reading book

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

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 opportunity past