Marjory Stoneman Douglas

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

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.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.