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.

There is always the need to carry on.

There are no other Everglades in the world.

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.

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

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

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

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

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

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

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

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

This is what I want so don't be sad.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

This is the moment behind which I could forget every other moment that has passed.

Stuff happens when you are a kid, it scars you inside for life.

You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.