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

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.

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

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.

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

I'm just a tough old woman.