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

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

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

There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.

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

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

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