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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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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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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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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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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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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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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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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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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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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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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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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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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 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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