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Ski Mountaineer Inspirational Quotes (45)

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Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
David R. Brower
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While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
David R. Brower
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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
David R. Brower
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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
David R. Brower
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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
David R. Brower
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Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.
Dolores LaChapelle
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There is no business on a dead planet
David R. Brower
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People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
David R. Brower
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
David R. Brower
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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
David R. Brower
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I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
David R. Brower
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How could I live without powder?
Dolores LaChapelle
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When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
David R. Brower
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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
David R. Brower
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I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.
David R. Brower
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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
David R. Brower
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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
David R. Brower
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For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
David R. Brower
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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
David R. Brower
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To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology without wilderness the world is a cage.
David R. Brower
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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
David R. Brower
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There is more inside you than you dare think.
David R. Brower
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Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.
David R. Brower
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We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.
David R. Brower
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