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I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.
I'm just a tough old woman.
No one is satisfied with their life's work.
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.
You have to stand up for some things in this world.
To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
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.
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
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.
You can't conserve what you haven't got.
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you'll find it lasts you very well.
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.
Conservation is now a dead word.
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.
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.
The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.
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.
