Everglades Quotes:

There are no other Everglades in the world.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

topic: World, Everglades

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

topic: Speech, Everglades

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.230, Pineapple Press Inc

topic: Hats, Everglades

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

topic: Everglades, Expanse

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

source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Robert Fink, Michael Grunwald (2007). “The Everglades: River of Grass”, p.5, Pineapple Press Inc

topic: Unique, World, Earth, Everglades, Regions

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

topic: Tests, May, Planets, Everglades

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

topic: Country, Lying, Florida, South Florida, Everglades

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

topic: Attitude, Mind, Needs, Frigid, Everglades

Since 1972, Ive been going around making speeches on the Everglades. No matter how poor my eyes are, I can still talk. Ill talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat. Whoever wants me to talk, Ill come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades,

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.230, Pineapple Press Inc

topic: Eye, Speech, Want, Everglades

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.230, Pineapple Press Inc

topic: Uprising, Want, Want Me, Everglades

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

- T. J. MacGregor

source: T. J. MacGregor (1990). “Kin Dread”, Fawcett Books

topic: Florida, Unseen, Spirit, Everglades, Implied

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

source: Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

topic: Country, Thinking, People, Everglades, Opinion Polls

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

topic: Taken, Florida, Environmental, South Florida, Everglades

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.258, Pineapple Press Inc

topic: Life, Another Life, Should, Longer Life, Everglades

The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.

- Carl Hiaasen

topic: Running, Agriculture, Lakes, Everglades, Scenic

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

- James Carlos Blake

source: James Carlos Blake (2009). “Red Grass River: A Legend”, p.1, Harper Collins

topic: Garden, Devil, Raised, Everglades

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

topic: Children, Water, Parks, Sanitation, Everglades

I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Memories, Ocean, Yellowstone, Big Sur, Grizzlies

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

topic: Philosophy, Animal, Florida, South Florida, Intrinsic Value

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

- James Patterson

topic: Princess, People, Feelings, Everglades

People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers, have a 14-foot animal that's eating adult rabbits, and needs quite a bit of room and quite a bit of heat. That's the animal that gets put in the back of a pick-up truck and dumped into the Florida Everglades or the city lake, or just left on a doorstep - again, it's quite often the animal that suffers.

- Henry Rollins

source: "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

topic: Summer, Animal, Feet, Everglades, Doorstep

The American government has spent a lot of money trying to reclaim, for example, the Everglades, and to allow the natural vegetation at the coastal areas to be restored because that was part of the vegetation that actually protected the hinterlands.

- Wangari Maathai

source: Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

topic: Government, Trying, Example, Everglades, Vegetation

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

topic: Sea, Cities, Lakes, Orlando, Everglades