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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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David R. Brower
Age: 88 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 1
Died: 2000
Died: November 5
Cinematographer
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
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Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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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.
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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.
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