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

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.

Conservation is now a dead word.

There is always the need to carry on.

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

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.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.