Quotes by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

About Marjory Stoneman Douglas:

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was an American journalist, writer, feminist, and environmentalist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for development. Moving to Miami as a young woman to work for The Miami Herald, Douglas became a freelance writer, producing over a hundred short stories that were published in popular magazines. Her most influential work was the book The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), which redefined the popular conception of the Everglades as a treasured river instead of a worthless swamp; its impact has been compared to that of Rachel Carson's influential book Silent Spring (1962). Her books, stories, and journalism career brought her influence in Miami, which she used to advance her causes.
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All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

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I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

I'm just a tough old woman.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

Conservation is now a dead word.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

There is always the need to carry on.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

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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

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

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Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Author Bio

  • NameMarjory Stoneman Douglas
  • DescriptionWriter
  • BornApril 7, 1890
  • DiedMay 14, 1998
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom; National Women's Hall Of Fame