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"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."
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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."
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"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."
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"Conservation is now a dead word."
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"I'm just a tough old woman."
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"I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley."
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"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."
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"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."
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"No one is satisfied with their life's work."
Life
"All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind."
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"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."
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"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."
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