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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

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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
Nature
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Began
Places

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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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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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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There is no business on a dead planet
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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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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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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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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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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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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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