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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
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Environmentalist
Mountaineer
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Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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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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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no business on a dead planet
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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 still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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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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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
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