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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.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Green, Fact, Over, Brown

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.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Wealth, Country, Inevitable, Significance

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

You, Got, Conserve

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Proper, Little Bit, Bit, Sphere

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Loud, Before, Having, Belle

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Diversity, Harmony, Related, Forms

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.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Roads, Streets, Topics, Ought

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

World, Some, Things, Stand Up

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Mind, Need, Tropical, Near

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Tell, Over, About, Preserving

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.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Tell, Like, Unpleasant, Disorganized

Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Well, Virtues, Sins, Multitude

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.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Always, Other, Been, Anywhere Else

To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Friend, Everglades, Spend, Wandering

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Talk, Drop, About, Everglades

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Making, Going, Been, Everglades

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Problem, Good Housekeeping, Housekeeping

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I Can, Cause, Advantage, Disability

There is always the need to carry on.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Need, Always, Carry

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Work, Life, Satisfied

I'm just a tough old woman.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Woman, Old, Just, Tough

Conservation is now a dead word.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Dead, Now, Word, Conservation

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