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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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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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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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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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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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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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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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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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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 no business on a dead planet
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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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Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.
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