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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.
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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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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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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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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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