This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image