Lady Bird Johnson

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

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.