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

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.

I'm just a tough old woman.

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

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

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

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.