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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 still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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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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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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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
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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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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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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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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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What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.
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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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People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
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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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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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