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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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Wildness
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Cages
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Essentially
Flow
Technology
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