41 Quotes by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

There are no other Everglades in the world.

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

Conservation is now a dead word.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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