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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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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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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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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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