All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
You have to stand up for some things in this world.
There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.
There is always the need to carry on.
The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.
No one is satisfied with their life's work.
I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.
The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized.
You can't conserve what you haven't got.
Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
Conservation is now a dead word.
Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.
I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.
Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know.
I'm just a tough old woman.
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
