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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.

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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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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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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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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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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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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