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.

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

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

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.

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.

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