The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.
Marjory Stoneman DouglasRead
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
Interpretation
Women are challenging societal norms and roles assigned to them, and it's too late for men to resist this change.
This quote emphasizes that societal progress, particularly in terms of gender roles, is inevitable and that resistance to such change is futile. Marjory Stoneman Douglas highlights that women stepping out of traditional roles is no longer a debate; it reflects a broader transformation in society that has already begun.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a women's rights rally to inspire change.
The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.
Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.
To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized.
Movement has the capacity to take us to the home _x000D_ of the soul, the world within for which we have _x000D_ no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature, _x000D_ and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance, _x000D_ we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives. _x000D_ When brought forth from the inside and forged by _x000D_ the desire to create personal change, dance has the _x000D_ profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
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