All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.
I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know.
I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.
I'm just a tough old woman.
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
You have to stand up for some things in this world.
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
Conservation is now a dead word.
You can't conserve what you haven't got.
I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
There is always the need to carry on.
No one is satisfied with their life's work.
Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.
