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.

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'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

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.

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

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