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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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David Ross Brower
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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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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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I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.
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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.
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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.
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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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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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There is no business on a dead planet
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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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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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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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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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