Quotes About Everglades

#1. 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

#2. I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving to and educating an audience. So I tend to go with people who are complex and substantive.

Judith Light

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#4. My six favorite textures for fall and winter are leather, fur, tweed, mohair, velvet and wool. I love that they are all as warm as they are fashionable and easy to incorporate into your wardrobe.

Nina Garcia

#5. 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

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#7. 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

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#9. I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

Bruce Babbitt

#10. I'm a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings. Yo dogbreath, get your paws of the everglades. -Max

James Patterson

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#13. 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

#14. The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.

Sarah Waters

#15. 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

#16. To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#17. The constant life and death struggles of the Everglades violent and implacable, but not mean, never mean.

Patrick Astre

#18. If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

James Carlos Blake

#19. Tonight is when the obscene becomes the acceptable.

Laura Wiess

#20. It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.

Randy Wayne White

#21. Does it have a bed?" Liz asked doing her best to prop him up.
"A couple of old army cots that probably have more mildew than a politician has bullshit.

Hunter Shea

#22. But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself.

Michael Grunwald

#23. Whether it's fly-fishing, taking your camper to the Everglades, or just traveling, everyone has got a little retirement dream.

Jean Chatzky

#24. Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

T. J. MacGregor

#25. She is one of the bravest people I know, because when she's scared, or nervous, or so uncomfortable that she wants to do anything but what she has to do, she does it anyway. She taught me that you can only truly be brave if you're afraid, that without fear there is no bravery.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#26. Okay, will you go to prom with me next year?"

She started laughing. "Yeah," she said, "sure. We can go next year. That will give my mouse and bird friends plenty of time to make me a dress. Totally. Yes. Let's go to prom.

Rainbow Rowell