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There is no business on a dead planet
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
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Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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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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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 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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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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I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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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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For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
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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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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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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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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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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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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 more inside you than you dare think.
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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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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
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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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What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.
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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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