Quote

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

David R. Brower

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Like
Leave
Beauty
Future
Legacy
Water
River
Nature
Environmental
Must
Rivers
Thinking
Begin
Life
Generations

More quotes by David R. Brower

Image
We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
David R. Brower
Image
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
David R. Brower
Image
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
David R. Brower
Image
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology without wilderness the world is a cage.
David R. Brower
Image
Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
David R. Brower
Image
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
Image
We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
David R. Brower
Image
The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
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
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower