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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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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Dream
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Physics
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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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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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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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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 more inside you than you dare think.
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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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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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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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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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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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