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All Quotes by author - Marjory Stoneman Douglas
" All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind. "
Tropical
Attitude
Mind
" 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. "
Good
Water
Better
" Conservation is now a dead word. "
Dead
Now
Conservation
" I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this. "
Made
Loud
Before
" I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat. "
Drop
Talk
Hat
" I'm just a tough old woman. "
Woman
Old
Just
" I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just. "
Hair
Disability
Because
" It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere. "
Late
Day
Little
" I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley. "
Go
College
Good
" No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk. "
Talk
Eyes
I Can
" No one is satisfied with their life's work. "
Life
Work
Satisfied
" Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins. "
Covers
Sins
Well
" Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades. "
Speeches
Going
Been
" Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know. "
Them
More
Sometimes
" 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. "
Life
Truth
Tell
" 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. "
Green
Water
River
" The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman. "
Good
Thinking
Woman
" 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. "
Always
World
Nothing
" There is always the need to carry on. "
Need
Carry
Always
" 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. "
Black
Wealth
World
" They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose. "
Unique
Diversity
Simplicity
" To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there. "
Time
Wandering
Spend
" Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades. "
Necessity
Tell
Talk
" You can't conserve what you haven't got. "
Got
You
Conserve
" You have to stand up for some things in this world. "
You
Stand
Stand Up
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