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Marjory Stoneman Douglas was an influential American journalist, author, and conservationist known for her tireless efforts in advocating for the preservation of the Florida Everglades. Here are some quotes attributed to her:
”Be a nuisance where it counts; do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action. Be depressed, discouraged, and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption, and bad politics—but never give up.”
”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.”
”Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”
”I have always believed that water is the key to life. Without it, life is threatened to a degree that is scarcely possible to contemplate.”
”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.”
”It is a woman’s business to be interested in the environment. It’s an extended form of housekeeping.”
”I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That’s living.”
”It is a woman’s business to be interested in the environment. It’s an extended form of housekeeping.”
These quotes reflect Douglas’s passionate advocacy for environmental conservation, particularly focusing on the Everglades, and her views on activism and perseverance.