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Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American
Journalist
About the author
I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Talk
Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Mind
#Change
#Attitude
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.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Public
#Welfare
#Water
Conservation is now a dead word.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Now
#Word
#Conservation
I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Public
#Fault
#Protest
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Cause
#Age
#Hair
#Disability
I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Mind
#College
I'm just a tough old woman.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Old
#Woman
No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Talk
#Poor
#Eyes
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Day
#Men
#Women
Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
You have to stand up for some things in this world.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#World
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.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Light
#Fact
#Meaning
#Water
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Thinking
#Woman
#Environment
#Housekeeping
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.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#World
#Country
#Development
#Lies
#Meaning
#Wealth
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.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Nothing
#World
#Earth
There is always the need to carry on.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Life
#Harmony
#Simplicity
#Diversity
To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Time
#Friend
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Talk
#Necessity
You can't conserve what you haven't got.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
No one is satisfied with their life's work.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
American
Journalist
#Life
#Work