Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes

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

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.

Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know.

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.

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.

I’ll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

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

There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you’ll find it lasts you very well.

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

Conservation is now a dead word.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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