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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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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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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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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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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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