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

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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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I'm just a tough old woman.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: April 7th, 1890

Died: May 14th, 1998

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