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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
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