It would have been the world-changing environmental advocate's 100th birthday today.
For her entire life she was known as "Lady Bird," the beautiful nickname her nanny, Alice Tittle, gave her.
Her given name was Claudia Alta Taylor.
Image by LBJ Library Photo by unknown
She got that nickname because she was "as pretty as a Lady Bird."
At age 3.
Via: ladybirdjohnson.org
She was a true Texas girl.
“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 Johnson
Via: ladybirdjohnson.org
Who was generous with her love of animals...
Childhood snapshot of Lady Bird with a dog.
Image by LBJ Library Photo by unknown
