top of page

"I'm just a tough old woman."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Old quotes

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

"As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid."
Explore more quotes by Marjory Stoneman Douglas


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


"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."


"They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose."


"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."


"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."


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


"I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this."
bottom of page