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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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Cancer
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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
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We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
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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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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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There is no business on a dead planet
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Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
David R. Brower
We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
David R. Brower
Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
David R. Brower
I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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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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I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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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.
David R. Brower
We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
David R. Brower
People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
David R. Brower
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
David R. Brower
