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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 06:57 PM
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Thank you Lady Bird Johnson .....
Edited on Wed Jul-11-07 07:23 PM by Botany
Source: ABC

Lady Bird Johnson known for her environmental conservation and landscape
beautification efforts, died today. She was 94.

Read more: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3314884&page=1


She was 40 years ahead of the rest of the ecological restoration people ....
her work w/ and for native plants is priceless. A field of Texas Bluebonnets
beauty that can take your breath away and is a self sustaining ecosystem.

She was no simple "figuerhead" but a real force in better ways of land stewardship.


Rest well Miss Lady Bird .... the planet is better because of you.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:03 PM
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1. Thank you, Lady Bird

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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-12-07 02:04 PM
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19. its hard to emphasize how much ridicule and hell she took for her
efforts to take care of the land. she was a wonder, this woman, and I loved her. may you rest in peace, claudia.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:04 PM
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2. Thank you. & what a beautiful picture.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:05 PM
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3. oh my god if there is a heaven she is in it
i just saw this news, some people it just seems unfair when they leave us no matter how long they've been here

what a class act, the world is a better place because she was here
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bumblebee1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-12-07 12:49 AM
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17. May the heaven Lady Bird is in
have fields and fields of nothing but blue bonnets.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-13-07 12:40 AM
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21. if they didn't have flowers up there before ... they do now!
http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/{A1DAADDB-5B69-49D3-9CDF-1FA67DCC8112}.gif
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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:06 PM
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4. The beauty of my state - right there
Watching the bluebonnets come out in April. I love that time of year.

RIP, Lady Bird.
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japple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:06 PM
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5. The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin is
a testament to her vision that areas need to be set aside for preservation for the future. The area of Texas where the Johnson ranch was located, along the Pedernales River is breathtakingly beautiful, and that is probably due, in great part, to her influence. Thank you Miss Lady Bird for all you did to encourage us to keep America beautiful.

Thanks for posting that picture. It is awesome.
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snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:10 PM
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6. Sweet, sweet lady....I think of you everytime I see the magnificent
wildflowers here in Texas. Rest in peace.
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:15 PM
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7. A beautiful person. nt
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:36 PM
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8. She was also an advocate of the Head Start program.
Every time you see a small child think of her.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:45 PM
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9. K&R
A woman who cared and made a positive difference with the platform she had in life.

Condolences to her loved ones.
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lynnertic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:50 PM
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10. pic from the obituary my husband wrote for her.


http://www.deadnotforgotten.com/blog/history-american/lady-bird-johnson-former-first-lady/
Named by a maid when she was two because she was, “purty as a bird,” Lady Bird Johnson did much to make the nation purty when she championed the Highway Beautification Act, which encouraged planting of wildflowers on public land and regulation of billboards on federal highways. She also co-authored “Wildflowers Across America” and established the National Wildflower Research Center in Austin, Texas, with actress Helen Hayes in 1982.

...Every time I have seen flowers on the side of the road and in drainage ditches I have thought of Lady Bird Johnson and I’m sure I always will.
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burrowowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 07:58 PM
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11. Thank you for the flowers, Lady Bird!
K&R
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connecticut yankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 09:05 PM
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12. Thanks, Lady Bird, for everything.
You were a class act.

In fact, they're even saying nice things about you on lucianne.com
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 09:10 PM
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13. Lady -- (Commodores?) n/t
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 09:28 PM
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14. Lady Bird. A woman who loved and knew the beauty of life.
:toast: MKJ
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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 09:33 PM
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15. R.I.P.
The best First Lady ever.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 10:43 PM
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16. where is that? I want to go there next spring and just
breath the air!

That is just fantastic.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-12-07 01:04 AM
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18. Beautiful, Botany! nt
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-12-07 11:39 PM
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20. she made the connection between the environment and social justice ...
.... decades before the Brundtland Report of the late 1980s. Others may be getting the credit for the current "sustainability" and "green communities" movement, but many of those ideas were hers! So when the current White House sneers at "lima-bean greens" (as Bush calls environmentalists), and stifles federal agencies like the EPA ("Department of Sticks and Berries") -- they do not wish to be reminded of the fact that such great Americans as Mrs. Johnson were visionaries, in changing the way we think about the land! Especially when their guy is only pretending to be an outdoorsman and "rancher".
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