Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.

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"I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That’s the way our system works."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Awareness

"You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Learning

"The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Connection to Earth

"The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Responsibility

"At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems -- the answer for all the problems of the world -- comes to a single word. That word is education."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Education

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"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

Environment

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."

Environment

"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."

Environment