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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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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 cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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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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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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To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology without wilderness the world is a cage.
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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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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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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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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
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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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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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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
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