Best 21 quotes of Marjory Stoneman Douglas on MyQuotes

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

Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.

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

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

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

There are no other Everglades in the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Don’t think it is enough to attend meetings and sit there like a lump…. It is better to address envelopes than to attend foolish meetings. It is better to study than act too quickly; but it is best to be ready to act intelligently when the appropriate opportunity arises… Speak up. Learn to talk clearly and forcefully in public. Speak simply and not too long at a time, without over-emotion, always from sound preparation and knowledge. Be a nuisance where it counts, but don’t be a bore at any time… Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action…. Be depressed, discouraged and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption and bad politics — but never give up.

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