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It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

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

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

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

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

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

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

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

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

There is always the need to carry on.

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.

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

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

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

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

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

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

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

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.

Conservation is now a dead word.

I'm just a tough old woman.

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

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