The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.
Lady Bird JohnsonRead
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The environment connects everyone, emphasizing our shared responsibility for it.
Lady Bird Johnson's quote highlights the idea that the environment is a common ground for all humanity, where regardless of our individual differences, we share a collective interest and responsibility. It reminds us that caring for our planet is essential, as it is the only world we all inhabit together.
Themes
EnvironmentSharedMutual InterestConnectionCommunity
In practice
Example use cases
During a community meeting about local conservation efforts, this quote can be used to emphasize unity in environmental protection.
More from Lady Bird Johnson
All quotes βAny committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
Lady Bird JohnsonRead
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.
Lady Bird JohnsonRead
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird JohnsonRead
Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!
Lady Bird JohnsonRead
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird JohnsonRead
Similar quotes
When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.
Mikhail LermontovRead
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel ButlerRead
The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.
Michael SpecterRead
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
Aldo LeopoldRead
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
David AttenboroughRead