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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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Socialist
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Society
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Nature

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