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

Conservation is now a dead word.

There is always the need to carry on.

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

There are no other Everglades in the world.

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.

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