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.

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

There is always the need to carry on.

Conservation is now a dead word.

There are no other Everglades in the world.

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

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.