Marjory Stoneman Douglas Everglades Quotes

#1. When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.

Mike Bove

#2. 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. It is a river of grass.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#3. Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.

Mary C. Neal

#4. Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#5. The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

Robert Frost

#6. But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding

Tammara Webber

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#9. It brings tears of joy to a teacher's eye when the student becomes a great success.

Debasish Mridha

#10. 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

#11. There's something very ... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.

Rinko Kikuchi

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#13. 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

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#15. 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

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#17. By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away.

Charles Dance