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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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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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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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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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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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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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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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There is no business on a dead planet
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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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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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