Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Action is the antidote to despair.”

“Education is the cornerstone of progress.”