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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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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 must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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 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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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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