Marjory Quotes & Sayings

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject. Among others whose several achievements in their own fields may have surpassed his, no one has ever attempted to unify and correlate biochemical knowledge so as to form a comprehensible picture of the cell and its relation to life, reproduction and function. — Marjory Stephenson

To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you'll find it lasts you very well. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

You have to stand up for some things in this world. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

To be gripped by Foteini's calloused, rustic hand felt like being lovingly embraced by a 1,000 year old olive tree. For the first time since I arrived I felt the outer layer of my foreignness begin to peel away, just a tiny bit. — Marjory McGinn

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

The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a household by careful scrutiny of the persons and material arriving or leaving the house; we keep accurate records of the foods and commodities left at the door and patiently examine the contents of the dust-bin and endeavour to deduce from such data the events occurring within the closed doors. — Marjory Stephenson

No one is satisfied with their life's work. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Conservation is now a dead word. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than in more differentiated forms of life, and they can in addition afford to occupy more precarious positions in natural economy than larger organisms with more exacting requirements. — Marjory Stephenson

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

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

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith. — Marjory Stephenson

There is always the need to carry on. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I'm just a tough old woman. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

But the player librarians all over the country were raving about most was Marjory Muldauer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool. — Chris Grabenstein

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. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

You can't conserve what you haven't got. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas