Explore Quotes by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.

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

I'm just a tough old woman.

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.

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

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.

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 meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.

There is always the need to carry on.

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

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

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

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.