"I want us to know our world. If I……" — Lady Bird Johnson
"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."
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39 Quotes by Lady Bird Johnson
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- Where flowers bloom so does hope.
- Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
- Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
- When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
- How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.
- While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important…
- Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing…
- My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted…
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- Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world.…
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