41 Quotes by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There is always the need to carry on.

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.