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.

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.

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.

Preparation will not only fortify your confidence to approach life from a position of strength, but it will impress other people as well.

My dad was an English professor.

There's more money on the left in media than there is on the right.

A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.

Dancing - however you do it, even if it's in your living room - is a great workout.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.