Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
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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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I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
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The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
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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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I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
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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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Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
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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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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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