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

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet..

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

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

There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you'll find it lasts you very well..

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, Ive been going around making speeches on the Everglades. No matter how poor my eyes are, I can still talk. Ill talk about the Everglades ….

There are no other Everglades in the 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 m….

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary..

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. Noth….

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

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 ….

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 p….

There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of ….

Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the E….

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley..

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

I'm just a tough old woman..