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We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
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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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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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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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 more inside you than you dare think.
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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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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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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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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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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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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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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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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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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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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.
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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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