Marjory Stoneman Douglas

“Be a nuisance where it counts. Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action. Be depressed, discouraged, and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption and bad politics — but never give up.”

“Action is the antidote to despair.”

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

“Courage is a virtue that the young cannot spare. To buy a thing you want, you may have to sell what you have.”

“The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida.”

“The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.”

“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.”

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

“I'm not a pessimist. I'm a realist. And I'm a fighter. I have to be.”

“Education is the cornerstone of progress.”