Browsing Topic Best Everglades Quotes

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

I think the people will – who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there’s a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers, have a 14-foot animal that’s eating adult rabbits, and needs quite a bit of room and quite a bit of heat. That’s the animal that gets put in the back of a pick-up truck and dumped into the Florida Everglades or the city lake, or just left on a doorstep – again, it’s quite often the animal that suffers.

I’m a freaking princess when it comes to other people’s feelings. Yo dogbreath, get your paws of the everglades. -Max

If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

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

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.

I’ll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

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

There are no other Everglades in the world.

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

Since 1972, I’ve been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

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.

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.

Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.