Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

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

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

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.

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

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.

Conservation is now a dead word.

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