Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

Conservation is now a dead word.

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