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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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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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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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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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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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 believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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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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I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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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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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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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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