Conservation is now a dead word.

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

Since 1972, Ive been going around making speeches on the Everglades. No matter how poor my eyes are, I can still talk. Ill talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat. Whoever wants me to talk, Ill come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

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