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Marjory Stoneman Douglas
(7 Apr 1890 - 14 May 1998)
American conservationist, author and journalist who worked tirelessly to maintain natural protection for the Florida Everglades wetlands, earning her nicknames like “The Grande Dame of the Everglades.”
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Science Quotes by Marjory Stoneman Douglas (2 quotes)
Be a nuisance where it counts. … Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action. Be depressed, discouraged, and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption, and bad politics — but never give up.
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
As quoted in Post Editors, 'Marjory Stoneman Douglas and The Saturday Evening Post', Saturday Evening Post (26 Feb 2018). Cited as “From a 1980 article she wrote”, in 'A Life of Advocacy and Activism', a floridastateparks.org webpage.
Conservation is now a dead word. … You can’t conserve what you haven’t got. That’s why we are for restoration.
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Speaking to Sarasota Wellesley Club about the goal for the Friends of the Everglades (1982). As quoted in Jack E. Davis, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas (2009), 512. She promoted restoring the massive disruptions to the ecosystems following the Corps of Engineers colossal, ill-conceived Everglades drainage project begun in 1948.
See also:
- 7 Apr - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Douglas's birth.
- The Everglades: River of Grass, by Marjory Stoneman Douglas. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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