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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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David R. Brower
Age: 88 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 1
Died: 2000
Died: November 5
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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
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I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
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I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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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Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.
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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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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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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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