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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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 still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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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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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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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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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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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I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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