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
I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this. – Marjory Stoneman Douglas
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind. – Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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
To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there. – Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Whoever wants me to talk, I’ll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades. – Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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
It’s a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere. – Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I take advantage of every thing I can – age, hair, disability – because my cause is just. – Marjory Stoneman Douglas
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose. – Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman. – Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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
