Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes

American - Journalist | April 7, 1890 - May 14, 1998

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.

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All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

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The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

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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.

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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.

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I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

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You can't conserve what you haven't got.

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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.

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To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.

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No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

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I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

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It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

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