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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 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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Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.
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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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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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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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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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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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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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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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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There is no business on a dead planet
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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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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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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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