Conservation is now a dead word.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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…

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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…

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

There are no other Everglades in the world.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas