Explore Quotes by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

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 at the drop of a hat. Whoever wants me to talk, Ill come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

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

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

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