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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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Men
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.
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Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.
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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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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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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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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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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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 cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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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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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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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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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
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