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I'm just a tough old woman.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas / Journalist
Old Woman
Tough
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Conservation is now a dead word.
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Conservation
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There is always the need to carry on.
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Carry
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You can't conserve what you haven't got.
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Got You
Conserve
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There are no other Everglades in the world.
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Everglades
Regions
World
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No one is satisfied with their life's work.
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Satisfied
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No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.
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Eye
Matter
Poor
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You have to stand up for some things in this world.
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This World
World
Stand Up
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I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.
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Everglades
Hats
Drop
Hat
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Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.
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Covers
Virtues
Multitude
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I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.
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College
Good College
Mind
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Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
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Everglades
Speech
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The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.
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May
Planets
Tests
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All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
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Attitude
Mind
Needs
Tropical
Near
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I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
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Age
Advantage
Causes
Disability
Hair
Take Advantage
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The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas / Journalist
Environment
Good Housekeeping
Housekeeping
Problem
Thinking
Extension
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To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas / Journalist
Everglades
Wandering
Necessarily
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I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas / Journalist
Belle
Loud
Public
Greatly
Having
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It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.
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Environment
Form
Housekeeping
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It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
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Men
Littles
Spheres
Women Are
Women Men Day
Object
Proper
Sphere
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Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas / Journalist
Everglades
Uprising
Want
Want Me
Preserving
Whoever
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They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
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Harmony
Related
Unique
Forms
Enclose
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Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
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Life
Atheism
Should
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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.
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Brain
Lasts
Pain
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The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized.
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Details
Disorganized
Hardest Thing
Oneself
Forgetting
Seem
The Hardest Thing
Unpleasant
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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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Children
Clean
Ought
Parks
Sanitation
Streets
Topics
Water
Welfare
Cover
Roads
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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.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas / Journalist
Earth
Everglades
Regions
Unique
World
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Remote
Wholly
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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.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas / Journalist
Brown
Everglades
Expanse
Grass
Green
Light
Moving
Rivers
Water
Central
Fact
Saw
Slowly
Meaning
River
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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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Country
Development
Everglades
Florida
Inevitable
Lying
Significance
South
South Florida
Wealth
Great World Important
Great World Wealth
Agricultural
Center
Lies
Meaning
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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.
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Eye
Speech
Want
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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.
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Animal
Ecosystems
Philosophy
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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.
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Air
Beautiful
Our World
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