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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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
Ski Mountaineer
Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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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.
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You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.
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Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.
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What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.
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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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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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.
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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.
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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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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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