The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

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

I'm just a tough old woman.

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

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

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.