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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
Ski Mountaineer
Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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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'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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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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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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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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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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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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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
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